Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade

Author: Iwan Bloch

Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1589635671

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A detailed, analytical study of the life and times of this brilliant but bizarre personality (and the sexually erotic times he lived in), containing the essence of all his writings, based on research by Bloch in private archives of the French Government, and Bloch's discovery of de Sade's unpublished manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom in Marseilles. The work contains a precis of the 120 Days of Sodom, the first attempt systematically to catalog and describe abnormal sexual behavior -- 100 years before Krafft-Ebing. A serious academic study of France during de Sade's time, its sexual morality, de Sade's works, and the role of sadism in literature, etc., this biography precedes de Beauvoir's Faut-il Brule de Sade? and began the resuscitation and modern study of De Sade. The author Iwan Bloch, a German physician, won a distinguished name in the world of science in the fields, of medical history and anthropology.

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

Author: P. J. Finglass

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1107189055

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A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World

Author: Monica Helen Green

Publisher: ARC Humanities Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942401001

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The plague organism (Yersinia pestis) killed an estimated 40% to 60% of all people when it spread rapidly through the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century: an event known as the Black Death. Previous research has shown, especially for Western Europe, how population losses then led to structural economic, political, and social changes. But why and how did the pandemic happen in the first place? When and where did it begin? How was it sustained? What was its full geographic extent? And when did it really end?

Pathological Bodies
Pathological Bodies

Author: Corinna Wagner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0520289528

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This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as “naturally” suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves.

Love Potions Through the Ages: A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores
Love Potions Through the Ages: A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores

Author: Harry E. Wedeck

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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This book is a serious academic attempt to document the history of love potions or other substances meant to enchant another individual into becoming enamored with another party. Some examples provided include sap of mallows during the times of Ancient Greek and several potions featured in the Kama Sutra.