- Title
- Framing Premodern Desires
- Subtitle
- Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe
- Price
- € 129,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089649843
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 05 - 2017
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Partner
- Category
- Early Modern Studies
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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Editors' Foreword
Introduction: Garthine Walker
Part I: Transforming Ideas and Practices
Thomas Parry-Jones: The Naturalness of Sex in Medieval Roman Law
Kathleen Smith: Sensing Diverse Desires: Late Medieval English Pastoral Manuals and the Reassessment of Sin
Bonnie Clementsson: Incest Between a Brother and Sister-in-Law - A Matter of Life and Death in Sweden Around 1700
Tomasz Wislicz: Dialectics of Virginity: Controlling the Morals of the Youth in the Early Modern Polish Countryside
Faramerz Dabhoiwala: The First Sexual Revolution
Part II: Constructing Passions
Carin Franzén: Love and Desire in the French Moralist Discourse
Karen Hollewand: Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716): Grand Libertine or Serious Scholar?
Juliette Lancel: The Dream and the Sin: Erotic Dream in the France of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Kaye McLelland: The Lame Man Makes The Best Lecher: Sex, Sin, and The Disabled Renaissance Body
Jonas Liliequist: Between Passion and Lust: Framing Desire in Early Modern Sweden
Epilogue: Lois Leveen: What Happens Between the Covers: Writing Premodern Desire for Audiences Beyond Academia
Index
Authors
Reviews and Features
Read a review of this book (in German) via Sehepunkte Rezensions journal fur die Geschistswissenschaften here.
Framing Premodern Desires
Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe
The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in premodern Europe. Among the topics considered are the visibility of sexual offenses and the construction of passions; the geographical range extends to Great Britain, with extended attention also to France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe. The result is a groundbreaking volume that adds significantly to our understanding of premodern European history, history of sexualities, gender studies, religious history, and many other fields.
Editors
Satu Lidman
Satu Lidman is at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Tom Linkinen
Tom Linkinen is at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Meri Heinonen
Meri Heinonen is at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Marjo Kaartinen
Marjo Kaartinen is at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
