Sexuality and gender in the English Renaissance : an annotated edition of contemporary documents

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Sexuality and gender in the English Renaissance : an annotated edition of contemporary documents

edited by Lloyd Davis

(Garland studies in the Renaissance, vol. 10)(Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 2011)

Garland Pub., 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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First published in 1998. This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. Combining complete texts and extracts-many hitherto unavailable in modern editions-the collection focuses on prevailing conceptions of sexuality and gender in major areas and institutions of Tudor and Stuart society. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen.

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Sermons and Homilies, Marriage and Household Manuals, Midwifery, Ballads and Chapbooks, Witchcraft, Law.

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