Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Edition of Contemporary Documents

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Lloyd Davis
Taylor & Francis, 1998 - 416 pages
First published in 1998. This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. Combining complete texts and extracts-many hitherto unavailable in modern editions-the collection focuses on prevailing conceptions of sexuality and gender in major areas and institutions of Tudor and Stuart society. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen.
 

Contents

Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed
3
A White Sheet or a Warning for Whoremongers
37
An Apology for Women
63
Of the Lawfulness of Marriage upon a Lawful Divorce
89
A Treatise against Painting and Tincturing
107
The Answer of a Mother unto Her Seduced
133
A Sermon
145
Described Methodically
165
Or a Direction for Married Persons
245
The Birth of Mankind
277
Ballads
309
A Merry Dialogue betwixt a Married Man and His
318
The Bridling Saddling and Riding of a Rich Churl
328
The Admirable History of the Possession and
351
Works Cited
407
Index
413

A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving
213
Or the Godly
231

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