Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series (del 89)
Antal sidor
225
Utgivningsdatum
2014-09-18
Förlag
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 14 mm
Vikt
499 g
ISBN
9780861933242

Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England

av Jennifer Evans
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-09-18
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An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period. It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs wereused not simply for sexual pleasure, but, more importantly, to enhance fertility and reproductive success; and that at that time sexual desire and pleasure were felt to be far more intimately connected to conception and fertilitythan is the case today. It draws on a range of sources to show how, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, aphrodisiacs were recommended for the treatment of infertility, and how men and women utilised them to regulate their fertility. Via themes such as gender, witchcraft and domestic medical practice, it shows that aphrodisiacs were more than just sexual curiosities - they were medicines which operated in a number of different ways unfamiliar now, and their use illuminates popular understandings of sex and reproduction in this period. Dr Jennifer Evans is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire.
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