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The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual
desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This
collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of
disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the
transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in
premodern Europe. Among the topics considered are the visibility of
sexual offenses and the construction of passions; the geographical
range extends to Great Britain, with extended attention also to
France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe. The result is a
groundbreaking volume that adds significantly to our understanding
of premodern European history, history of sexualities, gender
studies, religious history, and many other fields.
In early modern Sweden, if a man and his deceased wife's sister
were found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse they would be
sentenced to death by beheading. Today the same relationship is not
even illegal. Covering the period 1680-1940, this book analyses
both incest crimes and applications for dispensation to marry,
revealing the norms underpinning Swedish society's shifting
attitudes to incestuous relations and comparing them with
developments in other European countries. It demonstrates that,
even though the debate on incest has been dominated by religious,
moral and - in due course - medical notions, the values that
actually determined the outcome of incest cases were frequently of
quite a different character. An electronic edition of this book is
available under a creative commons licence:
manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198469912/9789198469912.xml -- .
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