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Chapter 2

Sex, Gender, and Bodies

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Sources

  1. A Brave Woman Steals the Royal Crown—Helene Kottannerin (c. 1400–after 1458)

  2. Syphilitic Man, ascribed to Albrecht Dürer (1496)

  3. The Wise Woman – The Gendered Ideal of Marital Virtue (c. 1525)

  4. Old Man with a Young Woman (1st Half of the 16th Century)

  5. Old Woman with a Young Man (1st Half of the 16th Century)

  6. Ludwig Senfl, “The Women with the Fleas” (1530s)

  7. Martin Luther, “Warning Against Prostitutes” (May 13, 1543)

  8. Plague in the House (16th Century)

  9. Andreas Ryff on the Plague (second half of the 16th century)

  10. Johannes Schultz, Wedding Motet: Der ehlich Stand (1622)

  11. Hans Heinrich Glaser, The Plague (1629)

  12. Child Eater (17th Century)

  13. Andreas Gryphius, To a Maiden of High Birth (17th century)

  14. Seventeenth-Century Student Song: Maidens Care only about Appearances (mid-17th century)

  15. Historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks: “Make It Gendered, Make It Global: Retelling the Reformation” (2018)

  16. Art Historian Matthias Müller on the Significance of the Body in the Early Modern Period (2021)

 
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