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  title info:
    title: Clever little books
    sub title: Martial's epigrams and sexual knowledge in early modern Europe
  title info:
    title: Martial's epigrams and sexual knowledge in early modern Europe
  name:
    name part: Moulton, Ian Frederick
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 252 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among male elites in early modern Europe. Valued for its wit and concision, Martial's sometimes shocking poetry was highly regarded in early modern humanist culture, and editions with detailed scholarly commentary circulated widely. Clever Little Books explores how unexpurgated editions of Martial's poetry created a significant cultural space for discourse on illicit and non-procreative sexual practices in the early modern period. The early modern commentaries give detailed information on all aspects of sexuality described in the poems, and they constitute a fundamental site of encounter of the early modern period with the world of antiquity. Drawing on early modern scholarly discourse around canonical Latin poetry, as well as handwritten marginal commentary by individual readers such as the English playwright Ben Jonson, Ian Frederick Moulton traces the conflict between ancient sexual mores and the sexual culture and traditions of Renaissance Europe, including later attempts to censor Martial's texts. By focusing on the sexual knowledge transmitted through editions of Martial, Clever Little Books sheds light on an overlooked but important aspect of early modern sexual discourses, attitudes, and knowledge."--
  table of contents: Imitations of Martial: Antonio Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus -- Endless Commentary: Perotti's Cornucopiae -- Varieties of Sexual Activity in Martial and the Joint Commentary -- How Ben Jonson Read His Martial -- Martial Castrated: Early Modern Censorship of Martial.
  note: Ian Frederick Moulton.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Martial
  subject:
    topic: Epigrams, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Humorous poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Latin wit and humor
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sex customs in literature
  subject:
    topic: Sex in literature
  subject:
    topic: Sex customs
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sex
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Épigrammes latines
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie humoristique latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Humour latin
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Vie sexuelle dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Sexualité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Vie sexuelle
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Sexualité
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Histoire
  classification: PA6507 .M68 2024
  classification: 878/.0109
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Clever little books
    name:
      name part: Moulton, Ian Frederick, 1964-
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1444081618
  identifier: 9781487558338
  identifier: 1487558333
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240708
    record change date: 20250306160949.7
    record identifier: in00005641923
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng