Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern EuropeCentre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005 - 292 страница Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality. |
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Introduction | 7 |
1 Medical Responses to the French Disease in Europe at | 33 |
2 Charlatans the Regulated Marketplace and the Treatment | 57 |
3 Joseph Grünpecks Astrological Explanation of the French | 81 |
How to Read Early Modern | 109 |
Hunting the French Pox in Early | 133 |
Foreign Language as Sexual Disease | 159 |
Representations | 187 |
The French Disease in Early | 211 |
Syphilis and Sodomy | 239 |
Paupers and the Pox | 261 |
Notes on Contributors | 285 |
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