Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public readership. Using both textual and visual material, this article analyzes the tension between these aims in two sixteenth-century French vernacular works that discussed medical topics related to sex: La Dissection des parties du corps humain (1546) by Charles Estienne and the Erreurs Populaires (first edition, 1578) by Laurent Joubert. These medical authors employed visual and textual strategies to legitimize sexual content and to increase their professio...
This project report analyzes the emergence of categories of sexual deviancy as they appear in select...
This article is a combination of historiographic theoretical revision and a close reading of medical...
La Réforme catholique a marqué le XVIIe siècle par sa promotion du sacrement du mariage. L’État ...
Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. ...
In the. Renaissance, it is only the biological use of the games of Venus which seemed to give the ri...
"Dans les reigles du plaisir...: Medecine et Obscenite au siecle des Lumieres" analyzes the contribu...
International audienceThis work proposes to study the representation of seduction in medical discour...
This article examines a corpus of nineteenth-century French instructional texts offering guidance to...
This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentari...
Did ‘sex education’ actually exist in eighteenth-century France? Shaped by competing currents of rel...
Abstract: In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo ...
In the preface to his translation of a short work of Galen, Second Livre de Claude Galien à Glaucon ...
This thesis considers responses to modesty in the works of four sixteenth-century French women write...
Exchanges between medical and literary discourses in the French Renaissance: comparing the fascinati...
In early modern Europe, syphilis tormented individuals regardless of social standing. The various st...
This project report analyzes the emergence of categories of sexual deviancy as they appear in select...
This article is a combination of historiographic theoretical revision and a close reading of medical...
La Réforme catholique a marqué le XVIIe siècle par sa promotion du sacrement du mariage. L’État ...
Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. ...
In the. Renaissance, it is only the biological use of the games of Venus which seemed to give the ri...
"Dans les reigles du plaisir...: Medecine et Obscenite au siecle des Lumieres" analyzes the contribu...
International audienceThis work proposes to study the representation of seduction in medical discour...
This article examines a corpus of nineteenth-century French instructional texts offering guidance to...
This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentari...
Did ‘sex education’ actually exist in eighteenth-century France? Shaped by competing currents of rel...
Abstract: In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo ...
In the preface to his translation of a short work of Galen, Second Livre de Claude Galien à Glaucon ...
This thesis considers responses to modesty in the works of four sixteenth-century French women write...
Exchanges between medical and literary discourses in the French Renaissance: comparing the fascinati...
In early modern Europe, syphilis tormented individuals regardless of social standing. The various st...
This project report analyzes the emergence of categories of sexual deviancy as they appear in select...
This article is a combination of historiographic theoretical revision and a close reading of medical...
La Réforme catholique a marqué le XVIIe siècle par sa promotion du sacrement du mariage. L’État ...