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The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe

Title

The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe / edited by Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2002.

Description

xiv, 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

URL

Other contributors

McClanan, Anne L., 1966- Encarnación, Karen Rosoff.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Representing women on Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson
"Weapons to probe the womb" : the material culture of abortion and contraception in the early Byzantine period / Anne L. McClanan
Myth and magic in early Byzantine marriage jewelry : the persistence of pre-Christian traditions / Alicia Walker
Spinning yarns : clean linen and domestic values in late Medieval French culture / Veronica Sekules
Insecure borders : symbols of clerical privilege and gender ambiguity in the liturgy of churching / Paula M. Rider
Relics of a fertile heart : the "autopsy" of Clare of Montefalco / Katharine Park
Beautiful brides and model mothers : the devotional and talismanic functions of early modern Marian reliefs / Geraldine A. Johnson
Renaissance household goddesses : fertility, politics, and the gendering of spectatorship / Adrian W.B. Randolph
The moralized breast in early modern Spain / Charlene Villaseñor Black
The proper uses of desire : sex & procreation in Reformation anatomical fugitive sheets / Karen Rosoff Encarnación
The sodomite's clothes : gift-giving and sexual excess in early modern Germany and Switzerland / Helmut Puff.

Kinsey subjects

Women history--Europe. Social conditions--Europe. Social customs--Europe.

Subject headings

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492. Europe History 476-1492.

ISBN

0312240015 9780312240011