Framing Premodern Desires: Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

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Framing Premodern Desires

Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

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Edited by Marjo Kaartinen, Meri Heinonen, Tom Linkinen, Satu Lidman

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2021
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9789048529001
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048529001

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, History, Regional History after 1500, Sociology

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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.

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Framing Premodern Desires

Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Tables and Pictures
pp 6-6

Editors’ Foreword
pp 7-8

Framing premodern desires between sexuality, sin, and crime: An introduction
pp 9-26

Part I - Transforming Ideas and Practices
pp 27-28

The Naturalness of Sex in Medieval Roman law
pp 29-44

Desire After Foucault: A re-Evaluation of Sex and sin in English Medieval Pastoral Manuals
pp 45-64

Incest Between in-laws: A Matter of Life and Death in Sweden in 1700
pp 65-82

Dialectics of virginity: Controlling the Morals of youth in the Early Modern Polish Countryside
pp 83-102

The First Sexual Revolution
pp 103-128

Part II - Constructing Passions
pp 129-130

Love and Desire in French moralist Discourse
pp 131-150

Between Books and Brothels: The sexual Scholarship of Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
pp 151-172

The Dream and the sin: Erotic Dream in the France of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
pp 173-188

The Lame man makes the Best Lecher: Sex, sin, and the Disabled Renaissance Body
pp 189-210

Between Passion and Lust: Framing Male Desire in Early Modern Sweden
pp 211-232

Epilogue: What Happens Between the Covers: Writing Premodern Desire for Audiences Beyond Academia
pp 233-250

About the Authors
pp 251-254

Index
pp 255-256

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