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Feb 17, 2017harrissusanc rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is one overwhelming volume that spans over 300 years, with precision and an eye on the shocking. With so little abridged and too many footnotes, this might have been better in two volumes. The nineteenth century is easier to read if only because there are more sources and most of us are more familiar. Not to be missed for the unforgiving telling of all the lascivious tidbits and arbitrary rules and mores.