Cursed Blessings : Sex and Religious Radical Dissent in Early Modern Europe / edited by Umberto Grassi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grassi, Umberto, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Europe--Religious aspects--History.

Sex.

Sexual minorities--Europe--History.

Sexual minorities.

Europe--Church history--16th century.

Europe.

Europe--Church history--17th century.

Europe--Church history--18th century.

Dissenters, Religious--Europe--History.

Dissenters, Religious.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 168 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. He specializes in early modern history and has published on the history of sexuality, religious radical dissent, cultural history, and the history of emotions. He has held research positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the University of Sydney as a research fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland. His previous publications include Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic (2021).

Contents:

Introduction: Sexual Nonconformity and Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe/ Umberto Grassi

Part 1: Sex and the body as a form of resistance to Catholic Orthodoxy

A Sixteenth-Century Libertine Priest: Francesco Calcagno / Lucia Felici

The Disciple whom Jesus Loved / Vittorio Frajese

The Venetian Inquisition and the bodies of Nuns. The Trial Against Suor Cecilia Sacrati, 1701-1706 / Isabel Harvey

Part 2: Heretical reinterpretations of original sin in Germany and the Netherlands

Decrypting Adam and Eve: Agrippa on Sexuality and Redemption / Dario Gurashi

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent in David Joris' Radical Spiritualism / Gary K. Waite

The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries / Karen E. Hollewand

Part 3: Between elite discourses and popular innuendos: European erudite libertinism

Sodomy and Irreligion in the Culture of the dénaisés (Seventeeth Century) / Jean-Pierre Cavaillé

The Moral Radicalism of Libertine Dalliance in Eighteenth-Century France / Peter Cryle.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 3, 2024).

ISBN:

9781003299974

1003299970

9781040087145

1040087140

9781040087114

1040087116

Publisher Number:

40032388248

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.