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Desire and discipline : sex and sexuality in the premodern West
- Title
- Desire and discipline : sex and sexuality in the premodern West / edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
- Description
- xxviii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Murray, Jacqueline. Eisenbichler, Konrad.
- Notes
- Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Toronto, Nov. 22-23, 1991. Includes bibliographical references. Paperbound.
- Contents
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- Sex in history: a redux / Vern L. Bullough
- Playing by the rules: sexual behaviour and legal norms in medieval Europe / James A. Brundage
- Gender models in Alfonso X's siete partidas: the sexual politics of 'nature' and 'society' / Roberto J. González-Casanovas
- 'Men without wives': sexual arrangements in the early Portuguese expansion in West Africa / Ivana Elbl
- Sex in tudor London: abusing their bodies with each other / Carol Kazierczak Manzione
- Sexual rumours in English politics: the cases of Elizabeth I and James I / Robert Shephard
- The 'masculine love' of the 'Princes of Sodom' 'practising the art oof ganymede' at Henry III's court: the homosexuality of Henry III and his mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's mémoires-journaux / Joseph Cady
- Masculinities and homosexualities in French renaissance accounts of travel to the Middle East and North Africa / Guy Poirier
- Bernardino of Siena versus the marriage debt / Dyan Elliott
- Sex, money, and prostitution in medieval English culture / Ruth Mazo Karras
- Wives and mothers: adultery, madness, and marital misery in Titian's Paduan Frescoes / Rona Goffen
- Freedom through renunciation? Women's voices, women's bodies, and the phallic order / Barrie Ruth Straus
- Learning to write with Venus's pen: sexual regulation in Matthew of Vendome Ars versificatoria / Garrett P.J. Epp
- Reading the dirty bits / Andrew Taylor
- Did mystics have sex? / Nancy F. Partner.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex customs--Europe.
- ISBN
- 0802007805 (bound) : 0802071449 (pbk.) :