The Sex Lives of Saints
BLOG HOME This is another book I found very useful in my work on early modern attitudes towards suffering. Virgina Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), discusses the saints of the early Christian period, but it got me thinking about how the accounts of these saints were received in the […]
Recommended Reading: _Erotic Subjects_
BLOG HOME Of all the modern scholarship I consulted in the writing of my own book (Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England), Melissa E. Sanchez, Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature (OUP, 2011) was probably the one I liked best. Admittedly, my reasons for liking it […]