Author: Julius RosenbaumPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368921231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Plague of Lust
Author: Julius RosenbaumPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368921231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Plague of Lust
Author: Julius RosenbaumPublisher:
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Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Plague of Lust; Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity, In Two Volumes
Author: Julius RosenbaumPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387089244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Plague of Lust, Being a History of Veneral Disease in Classical Antiquity... Translated from Te Sixth German Edition by an Oxford M. A.
Author: Julius RosembaumThe Plague of Lust
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Category : Paraphilias
Languages : en
Pages :
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Love and Sex in the Time of Plague
Author: Guido RuggieroPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.
Lust for Liberty
Author: Samuel Kline COHNPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word liberty with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.
The Wages of Sin
Author: Peter L. AllenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226014606
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Discusses diseases and ailments that have been connected to sex throughout history, and the reactions to them that have been shaped by religion or morality.
Cultures of Plague
Author: Samuel Kline CohnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199574022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This title highlights the impact that the plague epidemic in Italy between 1575 and 1578 had on the medical writers and practitioners of the time. He asserts that these writers anticipated modern epidemiology and created the structure for plague classics of the next century.
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