Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current …
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Recueil de quatorze petites études issues du séminaire 1979-1980 de Philippe Ariès à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. Principaux aspects : l'évolution sexuelle, le combat de la chasteté chez Cassien, l'homosexualité à Rome, saint Paul et la chair, l'homosexualité …
The nineteen original articles written by medieval scholars fill a gap in the field's scholarship which has ignored sexuality as a topic. Building on the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault's history of sexuality, the essays consider ignored research work and bring fresh insi…
Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through 500 years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience from women's points of view, showing how they we…
"Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience puttting women back in the picture, sh…
Peakman presents a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. The author examines colonization and the imperial experience putting women back in the picture, showing their role in the building of empires, but also ho…
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone--or oneself--was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of …
"People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror …
"People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror …
