Created with. A Cultural History of Sexuality. Berg Publishers now Bloomsbury contacted me some years ago and asked if I would like to oversee a rather massive project on editing the Sexual History of the World. Never one to be easily fazed, and having contact with some of the best scholars in the field of the history of sexuality, I agreed to take it on.
The editors of each individual volumes added their own introductions and I second edited it all the whole 6 volumes. I also edited my individual volume on the Enlightenment Vol. I had the pleasure of working with over 40 scholars in order to pull the project together and I reckon we did a good job. A Cultural History of Sexuality presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns,.
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own.
Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in confessors' manuals, in virginity treatises, and in literary texts. This volume looks afresh at the cultural meanings that sex had throughout the period, presenting new evidence and offering new interpretations of known material.
Acknowledging that many of the categories that we use today to talk about sexuality are inadequate for understanding sex in premodern times, the volume draws on important recent work in the historiography of medieval sexuality to address the conceptual and methodological challenges the period presents. A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Renaissance. Europe saw such revolutionary cultural change between and that those who witnessed the transformations conceived of the period as a time of rebirth.
