Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain

"The originality of Alain Saint-Saëns's anthology lies in its willingness to challenge traditional approaches to studying the past. Crossing customary boundaries between the academic disciplines of history and literature, essays borrow methodologies from each. Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain breaks stereotypes of pleasure and violence, sex and love, and its presents paradoxes that stimulate rethinking. In many years of research, publishing, and teaching, I have rarely seen an anthology with so many exciting essays unified by such an original focus."

Mary-Elizabeth Perry

"There is nothing in English that combines literary analysis with historical research on this topic. I believe that Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain will add considerably to our knowledge of sexual practices in the early modern period."

Anne J. Cruz

The Author

Alain Saint-Saëns is Agrégé d'Histoire Paris-Sorbonne (France), Docteur Habilité from University of Toulouse (France), and a former fellow of the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (Spain). He is the author of La nostalgie du désert en Castille au Siècle d'Or (1993), Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain, 1545-1690 (1995), and Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable. Grandeurs et misères des ermites d'Espagne, 1550-1700 (1997). He is the editor of Religion, Body, and Gender in Early Modern Spain (1991), and Historia Silenciada de la mujer española (1996), and the co-editor, with Magdalena S. Sánchez, of The Early Modern Spanish Woman. Images and Realities (1996).

Alain Saint-Saëns is a member of the Editorial Board of Hispania Sacra and Co-Director, with Norman Holub, of the Mediterranean Coferences. He is currently Associate Professor of History at Dowling College in Long Island.

ISBN 1-889431-01-X

$49.95