Framing Premodern Desires: The Transformation of Sexual Ideas, Attitudes and Practices in Europe [Hardcover]

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 leading scholars 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 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 and Germany. 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.
 

Satu Lidman,Tom Linkinen, andMarjo Kaartinenare all at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Editors’ foreword
Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen, Marjo Kaartinen, and Meri Heinonen
Framing premodern desires between sexuality, sin, and crime
An introduction
Garthine Walker
Part I Transforming ideas and practices
The naturalness of sex in medieval Roman law
Thomas Parry-Jones
Desire after Foucault
A re-evaluation of sex and sin in English medieval pastoral manuals
Kathleen Smith
Incest between in-laws
A matter of life and death in Sweden in 1700
Bonnie Clementsson
Dialectics of virginity
Controlling the morals of youth in the early modern Polish countryside
Tomasz Wi[licz
The first sexual revolution
Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Part II Constructing passions
Love and desire in French moralist discourse
Carin Franzén
Between books and brothels
The sexual scholarship of Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
Karen Hollewand
The dream and the sin
Erotic dream in the France of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Juliette Lancel
The lame man maklC"