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!

Deploying analytical tools from a range of disciplines, these essays interrogate and explore those phenomena to reveal the central importance of sexuality and sexual metaphor for our understanding of European history, politics and culture.

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

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.

A richly textured cultural history that investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment.

Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a feature of western civilization, and this work attempts to provide a portrait of the origins and operation of the system over a long stretch of the English past.