Early Modern History: Society and Culture: The Disease that Came to Stay

McGough, L.

A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-11-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230252929

DOI: 10.1057/9780230298071

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 202