Tag: Love

Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England Illicit Sex and the Nobility


Free Download Johanna Rickman, "Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility "
English | ISBN: 0754661350 | 2008 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since members of the nobility were not generally brought before the ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction over other citizens’ sexual offences, Rickman’s sources include collections of family papers (primarily letters), state papers, and literary texts (prescriptive manuals, love sonnets, satirical verse, and prose romances), as well as legal documents. Rickman explores how attitudes towards illicit sex varied greatly throughout the period of study, roughly 1560 – 1630. Whole some viewed it as a minor infraction, others, directed by a religious moral code, viewed it as a serious sin. seeks to illuminate the place of noblewomenin early modern aristocratic culture, both as historical subjects (considering personal circumstances) and as a social group (considering social position and status).She argues that two different gender ideals were in operation simultaneously: one primarily religious ideal, which lauded female silence, obedience, and chastity, and another, more secular ideal, which required noblewomen to be beautiful, witty, brave, and receptive to the games of courtly love.

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The New Laws of Love Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy


Free Download Marie Bergström, "The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy"
English | ISBN: 1509543511 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB | 991 KB
Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to being a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change and what does it tell us about the changing nature of love and sexuality?

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Sandwich 100 Sandwich Recipes You’ll Love


Free Download Sandwich: 100 Sandwich Recipes You’ll Love by BookSumo Press
English | April 29, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B087SKQ7FC | 130 pages | PDF | 3.02 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

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Pesticides, A Love Story America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals


Free Download Michelle Mart, "Pesticides, A Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals "
English | ISBN: 0700621288 | 2015 | 344 pages | EPUB | 1434 KB
"Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn’t love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did-and apparently still do. Why-in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness-do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer.

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Our Saviour and His Love for Us Catholic Doctrine on the Interior Life of Christ as it Relates to Our Own Interior Life


Free Download Our Saviour and His Love for Us: Catholic Doctrine on the Interior Life of Christ as it Relates to Our Own Interior Life By Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
1999 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0895556359 | EPUB | 1 MB
Here, this great 20th-century theologian probes the meaning of 32 different topics relating to Our Lord and how they show His love for us. Each chapter is a marvelous self-contained essay that can stand alone and that could easily be a beautiful little booklet by itself. Impr. 398 pgs, PB

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Love to Cook 120 joyful recipes from my new BBC series


Free Download Mary Berry, "Love to Cook: 120 joyful recipes from my new BBC series"
English | ISBN: 1785946773 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
‘I’m excited to share over 120 irresistible, no-fuss recipes that I hope will bring happiness into your kitchen. Each beautifully photographed dish celebrates the delicious ingredients and flavours I love, and which make cooking at home such a joy.’

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