Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice : The Disease that Came to Stay /

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, wid...

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Main Author:	McGough, Laura J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:	Early modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
Subjects:	History. Clinical Psychology. Cultural History. European History. History of Italy. Modern History. Social History. Civilization > History. Clinical psychology. History, Modern. Social history. Europe > History. Italy > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book