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

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Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern EuropeOverview Few illnesses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. Often believed to have arisen in Europe during the 1490s, by the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses to this new disease by doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These

[Italian and English] (115-116)

ISBN: 978-0-7727-2212-6 softcover

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