Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 13227545
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- ISBN
- 978-0-86193-324-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 93,000-word monograph is the first detailed study of aphrodisiacs in early modern culture and challenges the assumption that aphrodisiacs were uncomplicated sexual curiosities. Drawing together European English-language anatomical, medical and surgical texts, manuscript recipe books, newspapers and ephemeral literature, it charts the understanding of aphrodisiacs across genres, demonstrating that aphrodisiacs were a ubiquitous element of discussions about infertility at all social levels. The book comprehensively demonstrates that aphrodisiacs were historically contingent, complex, and contested. The book challenges existing scholarship focused on the termination of pregnancy and situates the promotion of fertility as a primary concern of early modern society.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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