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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 1st ed. 2011 edition
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.
202 pages, X, 202 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349322558 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 202 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 294 g |
| Language | English |