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1. 1. Schooling Sex

   Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France and England, 1534–1685

   

   Examines how erotic texts from Renaissance Italy through seventeenth-century France and England operated as informal curricula in sexual knowledge, mapping their production, translation, and use in classrooms and salons alongside humanist pedagogy, medical theory, and censorship. It argues that libertine writing both reflected and shaped norms of desire, gender, and power, blurring instruction and arousal, and traces networks of printers, teachers, and readers—from Aretino to Rochester—to show how print culture institutionalized erotic education in early modern Europe.

2. 2. Philology

   The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

   

   A concise intellectual history that traces how the study of ancient and modern texts, languages, and cultural artifacts developed into a dominant scholarly method in the nineteenth century, shaping what became the modern humanities; it explains philology’s practices — close textual scrutiny, comparative linguistics, and historical reconstruction — shows how institutional and national contexts both propelled and later fragmented the field into separate disciplines, and argues for the continuing value of its historically grounded, text-centered approach.