A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages EPUB
Edited by Ruth Evans
Part of the The Cultural Histories Series series
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Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in confessors' manuals, in virginity treatises, and in literary texts. This volume looks afresh at the cultural meanings that sex had throughout the period, presenting new evidence and offering new interpretations of known material. Acknowledging that many of the categories that we use today to talk about sexuality are inadequate for understanding sex in premodern times, the volume draws on important recent work in the historiography of medieval sexuality to address the conceptual and methodological challenges the period presents.
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781350995307
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781350995307
