Search Results for “"early modern"”

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Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany

By Mona OBrien March 22, 2016 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.

Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World

By notcheseditor September 22, 2015 Early America, Food and Sexuality 1 comment

The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.

Sexual Curiosities? Aphrodisiacs in early modern England

By Jennifer Evans September 18, 2014 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Jennifer Evans The word aphrodisiac conjures images of oysters and chocolate, or perhaps peppers to ‘spice things up’. Nearly everyone knows that these foods have a long history of being considered aphrodisiacs. Yet it is worth devoting a little more attention to how these foods were described in the past […]

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva June 24, 2014 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Marianna Muravyeva Russian history of sexuality is very problematic. We have yet a lot to discover about same-sex relationships, sexual variations and attitudes to various sexual practices on the Russian pathway to modernity. The little we know suggests that one’s sexual identity was subject to close scrutiny from the community, the […]

Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality

By Claire Hayward June 9, 2016 LGBTQ 5 comments

Claire Hayward In Room 53 of the British Museum in London sits a small silver goblet that dates from about 15 BC – AD 15. The Warren Cup depicts ‘two male couples making love’. The descriptive panel underneath the cup tells us that one side shows an erastes and an […]

CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality

By Mackenzie Cooley March 9, 2016 CFP 0 comments

How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction?

History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference

By notcheseditor March 6, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

The Eleventh European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) takes place from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Valencia, Spain. This year’s conference includes a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of gender and sexuality across time and space, which we have listed for our readers […]