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John Atkins.
Sex in Literature, vol. 3: The Medieval Experience.

Published London: John Calder, 1978.
ISBN 0714536687.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: M. & A. Thomson Litho, East Kilbride.
Size: 132×203×33mm.
Page count: vii,378pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rather ragged at the edges and corners; printed on low-grade paper, so the text pages are very browned with age; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price £10.95]
Weight without packaging: 501g.

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Contents: The main strands; Decameron; Tricking the husband; Arabian Nights; World of Rabelais; Metaphors of sex; English folk song; Incubus & succubus; Elizabethans; Renaissance.
Appendix: Postures & groups.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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