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Taming Lust

Richard D. Brown

2014216 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2014
first published
  • 2016University of Pennsylvania Press · 216 pagesISBN 9780812223750
  • 2014University of Pennsylvania Press · 216 pagesISBN 9780812209259
  • 2014University of Pennsylvania Press · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780812245813

This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and executed for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region.

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