ISBN:
9781526754622
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 164 Seiten 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen, Porträts
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24 x 15,5 cm
DDC:
306.7094109031
Keywords:
Geschichte 1558-1603
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Großbritannien
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Sex / Great Britain / History / 16th century
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Marriage / Great Britain / History / 16th century
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Manners and customs
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Marriage
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Sex
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History
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Great Britain / Social life and customs / 16th century
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Great Britain / History / Elizabeth, 1558-1603
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Geschlechterverhältnis
;
Geschichte 1558-1603
Abstract:
"[...] this [...] book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth's England. A range of writers, from the famous, such as Shakespeare, John Donne and Ben Jonson, and lesser known figures popular in their time, provide, in their witty stories, poems and plays, vivid pictures of Elizabethan sexual attitudes and experiences, while sober reports from the church courts tell of seductions, adulteries and rapes. Here we also encounter private journals and scenes from ordinary marriages, with complaints of women's fashions, bossy wives and domineering husbands. Besides this, there are accounts of the busy whores of London brothels, homosexual activity and the Court's amorous carousel of predatory aristocrats, promiscuous ladies and hopeful maids of honour. We conclude with the frustrations of The Virgin Queen herself. [...]" - (Klappentext)
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