A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Renaissance

Bette Talvacchia is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut and author of Raphael and Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture.

1 Introduction: The Look and Sound of Sexuality in the Renaissance
Bette Talvacchia (University of Connecticut, USA)

2 Heterosexuality: A Beast with Many Backs
Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College, USA)

3 Homosexuality: Homosociabilities in Renaissance Nuremberg
Helmut Puff (University of Michigan, USA)

4 Sexual Variations: Playing with (Dis)similitude
Fredrika Jacobs (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

5 Sex, Religion, and the Law: Disciplining Desire
N. S. Davidson (University of Oxford, UK)

6 Sex, Medicine, and Disease: Welcoming Wombs and Vernacular Anatomies
Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University, USA)

7 Sex, Popular Beliefs, and Culture: "In the Waie of Lecherie"
Walter Stephens (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

8 Prostitution: Looking for Love
Guido Ruggiero (Miami University, USA)

9 Erotica: The Sexualized Body in Renaissance Art
Bette Talvacchia (University of Connecticut, USA)

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