Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe by Kevin Siena

Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

Essays and Studies #7

Kevin Siena

292 pages first pub 2005 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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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 ...

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