He carefully selected and compiled canons from earlier collections and then went on to tamper systematically with the texts he had chosen.

Allowed to make her profession on her deathbed, Bl. Celine is forever a spouse of Christ. Every saint gives a different beautiful insight into our holy Catholic Religion!

The essays in this volume reveal the central importance of sexuality and sexual metaphor for our understanding of European history, politics and culture, and emphasize the extent to which erotic presuppositions underpinned the early modern ...

Recovering voices long relegated to silence, this work deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain.

Here are one man's impressions of the manners, customs, and conduct of upper class French and English women of the eighteenth century.

Kathleen Long analyzes works from a range of disciplines and domains, medical, alchemical, philosophical, poetic, and political, to explore the reasons for the centrality of the hermaphrodite in early modern European thought.