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Sex with kings : 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge
- Author
- Herman, Eleanor, 1960-
- Title
- Sex with kings : 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge / Eleanor Herman.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Morrow, c2004.
- Description
- xii, 287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/2004040212.html
- Portion of title
- 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge
- Other titles
- Raymond Dempsey collection.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274) and index.
- Contents
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- Sex with the king
- Beyond the bed-the art of pleasing a king
- Rivals for a king's love-the mistress and the queen
- Cuckold to the king-the mistress's husband
- Unceasing vigilance-the price of success
- Loving profitably-the wages of sin
- Political power between the sheets
- Red whores of Babylon-public opinion and the mistress
- The fruits of sin-royal bastards
- Death of the king
- The end of a brilliant career and beyond
- Monarchs, mistresses, and marriage.
- Kinsey subjects
- Paramours--Female. Political sex scandals. Sex behavior history.
- ISBN
- 0060585439 (alk. paper) 0060760109 (pbk.)