The Sexual Culture Of The French Renaissance

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• The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance available on November 23 2023 from BiggerBooks for 93.63
  
• The Sexual Culture Of The French Renaissance available on January 05 2021 from Indigo for 95.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521769891 ξ1 registered November 23 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521769891 ξ2 registered January 05 2021
  
• Product category is The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance, 9780521769891, Book, Textbook Book

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By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge rippled outward from Italy, the sexual landscape and French notions of masculinity, sexual agency, and procreation were fundamentally changed. Exploring the use of astrology, the infusion of Neoplatonism, the critique of Petrarchan love poetry, and the monarchy''s sexual reputation, the book reveals that the French encountered conflicting ideas from abroad and from antiquity about the meanings and implications of sexual behavior. Intensely interested in cultural self-definition, humanists, poets, and political figures all contributed to the rapid alteration of sexual ideas to suit French cultural needs. The result was the vibrant sexual reputation that marks French culture to this day.

^ Katherine Crawford (2014). The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance, Cambridge University Press. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780521769891 (revised Nov 2023)
^ The Sexual Culture Of The French Renaissance Indigo. ISBN 9780521769891 (revised Jan 2021)