Editors' Foreword Introduction: Garthine Walker Part I: Transforming Ideas and Practices Thomas Parry-Jones: The Naturalness of Sex in Medieval Roman Law Kathleen Smith: Sensing Diverse Desires: Late Medieval English Pastoral Manuals and the Reassessment of Sin Bonnie Clementsson: Incest Between a Brother and Sister-in-Law - A Matter of Life and Death in Sweden Around 1700 Tomasz Wislicz: Dialectics of Virginity: Controlling the Morals of the Youth in the Early Modern Polish Countryside Faramerz Dabhoiwala: The First Sexual Revolution Part II: Constructing Passions Carin Franzén: Love and Desire in the French Moralist Discourse Karen Hollewand: Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716): Grand Libertine or Serious Scholar? Juliette Lancel: The Dream and the Sin: Erotic Dream in the France of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Kaye McLelland: The Lame Man Makes The Best Lecher: Sex, Sin, and The Disabled Renaissance Body Jonas Liliequist: Between Passion and Lust: Framing Desire in Early Modern Sweden Epilogue: Lois Leveen: What Happens Between the Covers: Writing Premodern Desire for Audiences Beyond Academia Index Authors