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  • Gender, Violence and Attitudes

    Lessons from Early Modern Europe

    by Satu Lidman ...
    Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence. It also investigates the legacy of gender-based violence through the Enlightenment to the present day and offers a historical background to highly topical human rights issues.Although the individual subjects of gender and the history of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Framing Premodern Desires

    Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

    Edited by Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen, Meri Heinonen, Marjo Kaartinen ...
    Series series Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    by R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

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  • Soul Machine

    The Invention of the Modern Mind

    by George Makari ...
    A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

    The Function of Avowal in Justice

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer ...
    Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Trans Historical

    Gender Plurality before the Modern

    Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...
    Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Shape of Sex

    Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

    by Leah DeVun ...
    Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)Longlisted, 20... ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

    by Louis-Georges Tin ...
    The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards—and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

    by Robert Mills ...
    During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one?In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship between sodomy and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

    Edited by Vern L. Bullough, James Brundage ...
    Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

    Edited by Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD