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‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England
Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature
Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.
The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.
“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases
Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.
CFP: The History of Venereal Disease
What role have venereal diseases played in the history of sexuality?
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