The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship & Sexuality through History

This is another encyclopedia from the excellent Greenwood collection, this time examining the nature and cultural aspects of love and sexuality from ancient times all the way through to the twenty‐first century. The encyclopedia is contained within six slim volumes examining the many aspects of love and sex from Ancient Sumeria to Elizabethan England, from Giacomo Casanova to Alfred Charles Kinsey. It is also geographically wide‐ranging, covering Europe, the Far and Middle East, Africa and the Americas which, as the set preface points out, means that the reader may compare practices in Victorian England with customs in the Americas at...