The kiss in history
By: edited by Karen Harvey.
Contributors: Harvey, Karen, 1971-
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Kissing -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Worship and ritual. The kiss of peace in the German Reformation / C. Koslofsky; title: The osculum infame : heresy, secular culture and the image of the witches' Sabbath / J. Durrant; title: Ambiguity and transgression. Lawful kisses? : sexual ambiguity and platonic friendship in England c. 1660-1720 / H. Berry; title: Adulterous kisses and the meanings of familiarity in early modern Britain / D. Turner; title: The kiss of life in the eighteenth century  : the fate of an ambiguous kiss / L. Davidson; title: Power and intimacy. Kisses for votes : the kiss and corruption in eighteenth-century English elections / E. Chalus; title: Illness and impact : the mistress of the house and the governess / C. Williams; title: "Kiss me, Hardy" : the dying kiss in the First World War trenches / S. Das.