Author: Davis, Lloyd; editor:
Title: Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Edition of Contemporary Documents
Description: New York / London, Garland Publishing, 1998. orig.boards. 22x14cm, xxiii,416 pp, Series: Garland Studies in the Renaissance, Volume 10 / Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volu. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 19 Documents. Includes: "Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches: A Sermon Against Whoredom & Uncleanness; A Homily Against Excess of Apparel; A Homily of the State of Matrimony;"; Richard Cooke " A White Sheet, or a Warning for Whoremongers"; William Heale "An Apology for Women"; John Rainolds "Of the Lawfulness of Marriage Upon a Lawful Divorce"; Thomas Tuke "A Treatise Against Painting and Tincturing of Men & Women"; Ez. W. "The Answer of a Mother Unto her Seduced Son's Letter"; John Fealtey "The House of Chastity: A Sermon"; Dudley Fenner " The Order of Household: Described Methodically Out of the Word of God, with the Contrary Abuses Found in the World"; Robert Cleaver "A Godly Form of Household Government: For the Ordering of Private Families"; Alexandrer Niccholes "A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving"; etc.

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