Sex and sexuality in Tudor England /
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on television 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,...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK :
Pen & Sword History,
[2022].
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Table of 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.