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Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay - Early Modern History: Society and Culture L. McGough
Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay - Early Modern History: Society and Culture
L. McGough
A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.
216 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 2 charts, 4 black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 30, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230252929 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 202 |
| Dimensions | 147 × 227 × 19 mm · 439 g |