Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367201807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 316 str.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Opis

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct. It is ideal for students of the history of sexuality, early modern Christianity, and early modern gender.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Christianity to 1500; 2. Protestant Europe; 3. Catholic and Orthodox Europe; 4. Latin America and the Caribbean; 5. Africa and Asia; 6. North America; 7. Conclusions

O autorze

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. The senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal, she is author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.