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The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex.
The volume grew out of a conference at the University of Toronto on human sexuality in the medieval and early modern world. Featuring works by world-renowned scholars, it presents a broad cross-section of current research and a diversity of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries, including legal history, art history, textual analysis, codicological analysis, and feminist theory. Some essays focus on the universal values of the Church, and highlight the intellectual and religious homogeneity that characterized Europe for much of the period. Others are more localized and look at a specific social and historical context. As a whole the collection points to the ongoing tension between society's desire to control sexuality and people's need to express it.
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Konrad Eisenbichler is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Italian as well as Director, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University at the University of Toronto.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0802007805
- ISBN 13 9780802007803
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages316
- EditorEisenbichler Konrad, Murray Jacqueline
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Desire and Discipline. Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. [Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler].
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