Desire and discipline [electronic resource] : sex and sexuality in the premodern West / edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler.
Eisenbichler, Konrad.; Murray, Jacqueline, 1953-
1996
HQ18.E8 D48 1996eb
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Title
Desire and discipline [electronic resource] : sex and sexuality in the premodern West / edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler.
ISBN
9781442673854 (electronic book)
9780802007803
0802007805
Publication Details
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 315 p.) : ill.
Call Number
HQ18.E8 D48 1996eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.7/094/09
Summary
The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex.The volume grew out of a conference at the University of Toronto on human sexuality in the medieval and early modern world. Featuring works by world-renowned scholars, it presents a broad cross-section of current research and a diversity of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries, including legal history, art history, textual analysis, codicological analysis, and feminist theory. Some essays focus on the universal values of the Church, and highlight the intellectual and religious homogeneity that characterized Europe for much of the period. Others are more localized and look at a specific social and historical context. As a whole the collection points to the ongoing tension between society's desire to control sexuality and people's need to express it.Informed by contemporary trends in scholarship, including feminism, gay studies, post-colonialism, and deconstruction, these essays introduce scholars to some of the riches that are only now being unearthed in this young discipline.
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Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Toronto, Nov. 22-23, 1991.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Eisenbichler, Konrad.
Murray, Jacqueline, 1953-
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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. Gonzalez-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 Kazmierczak Manzione
Sexual rumours in English politics : the cases of Elizabeth I and James I / Robert Shephard
'Masculine love' of the 'Princes of Sodom' 'practising the art of 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 Elliot
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 Vendôme's Ars versificatoria / Garrett P.J. Epp
Reading the dirty bits / Andrew Taylor
Did mystics have sex? / Nancy F. Partner.

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