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Author:
McGrath, Carol, author.
Title:
Sex and sexuality in Tudor England / Carol McGrath.
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Historyan imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xv, 156 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Sex--England--History--16th century.
Sex--England--History--To 1500.
Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
To 1603
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The Church, the Lady and sexuality -- Tudor marriage and matters sexual -- Medical practices and beliefs asscoiated with childbirth and contraception -- A summary of Tudor childbirth beliefs -- Attracting the opposite sex -- Dress to impress -- Tudor dance and music -- Courtly romance and poetry -- Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am -- Court mistresses -- A visit to a brothel and illicit sex issues -- Aphrodisiacs and love potions -- Sex and witchcraft -- Renaissance art and sex -- The commoner, villages, towns and sex -- Naughty vocabulary during the Tudor era.
Summary:
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they 'did'romance but how did they do sex?In this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in Tudor times, author Carol McGrath peeks beneath the bedsheets of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England to offer a genuine understanding of the romantic and sexual habits of our Tudor ancestors.Find out the truth about 'swiving', 'bawds', 'shaking the sheets'and 'the deed of darkness'. Discover the infamous indiscretions and scandals, feast day rituals, the Southwark Stews, and even city streets whose names indicated their use for sexual pleasure. Explore Tudor fashion: the codpiece, slashed hose and doublets, women's layered dressing with partlets, overgowns and stomachers laced tightly in place. What was the Church view on morality, witchcraft and the female body? On which days could married couples indulge in sex and why? How were same sex relationships perceived? How common was adultery? How did they deal with contraception and how did Tudors attempt to cure venereal disease? And how did people bend and ignore all these rules? -- provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1526769182
9781526769183
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1260819200
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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