"The Body, Gender and Culture"
The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700
1st Edition
By Katherine Royer
January 20, 2016
Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, ...
The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon
1st Edition
By Sonja Boon
January 20, 2016
Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death....
The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900
1st Edition
By Gülhan Balsoy
January 20, 2016
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused ...
The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
By Nina Attwood
January 20, 2016
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic....
The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Fiona Hutton
January 20, 2016
Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries....
Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700
1st Edition
By Bronach Kane
January 20, 2016
Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law....