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Sins of the flesh : responding to sexual disease in early modern Europe / edited by Kevin Siena.
- Title
- Sins of the flesh : responding to sexual disease in early modern Europe / edited by Kevin Siena.
- Publication
- Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 292 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Essays and studies ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 7.
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- Medicine in Literature
- Literature, Modern
- History, 17th Century
- History, 16th Century
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Europe > History > 16th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Europe > History > 17th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Treatment > History > Europe > 16th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Treatment > History > Europe > 17th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases in literature
- Maladies transmises sexuellement > Europe > Histoire > 16e siècle
- Maladies transmises sexuellement > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle
- Maladies transmises sexuellement > Traitement > Histoire > Europe > 16e siècle
- Maladies transmises sexuellement > Traitement > Histoire > Europe > 17e siècle
- Maladies transmises sexuellement dans la littérature
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. Scientific and medical responses -- 1. Medical responses to the 'French disease' in Europe at the turn of the sixteenth century / Jon Arrizabalaga -- 2. Charlatans, the regulated marketplace and the treatment of venereal disease in Italy / David Gentilcore -- 3. Joseph Grünpeck's astrological explanation of the French disease / Darin Hayton -- II. Literary and metaphoric responses -- 4. (Po)X marks the spot : how to 'read' 'early modern' 'syphilis' in The Three ladies of London / Jonathan Gil Harris -- 5. Luxury and lechery : hunting the French pox in early modern England / Roze Hentschell -- 6. Linguistic dis-ease : foreign language as sexual disease in early modern England / Diane Cady -- 7. French diseases and Italian responses : representations of the mal francese in the literature of Cinqueecento Tuscany / Domenico Zanrè -- III. Institutional and policing responses' -- 8. Quarantining beauty : the French disease in early modern Venice / Laura J. McGough -- 9. The French connection : syphilis and sodomy in Late-Renaissance Lucca / Mary Hewlett -- 10. The clean and the foul : paupers and the pox in London hospitals, c. 1550-c. 1700 / Keven Siena.
- ISBN
- 0772720290 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 58729363
- SCSB-11269756
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library