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Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)

Kevin Siena, ed. Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe.

Essays and Studies 7. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 294 pp. index. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-7727-2029-0.

Kevin Siena takes as the impetus for the collected essays in this volume that "the rise of the pox needs to be registered as a more significant development in the course of early modern European history than has largely been allowed" (8). Situating the essays within a still-developing tradition of post-Foucauldian criticism focused on early modern sexuality studies--as distinct, Siena explains, from territory covered by critics of the nineteenth and ...

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