Noelle Gallagher. Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2020.169
Abstract: the eastern Mediterranean held in early modern thought as a place where religions, cultures, and empires met. Occasionally these simplifications veer into the entirely misleading, such as claiming that “the English never feared or hated… read more here.
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