Cover -- Table of contents -- Editors' foreword -- Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen, Marjo Kaartinen, and Meri Heinonen -- Framing premodern desires between sexuality, sin, and crime: An introduction / Garthine Walker -- Part I - Transforming ideas and practices -- The naturalness of sex in medieval Roman law / Thomas Parry-Jones -- Desire after Foucault: A re-evaluation of sex and sin in English medieval pastoral manuals / Kathleen Smith -- Incest between in-laws: A matter of life and death in Sweden in 1700 / Bonnie Clementsson -- Dialectics of virginity: Controlling the morals of youth in the early modern Polish countryside / Tomasz Wi?licz -- The first sexual revolution / Faramerz Dabhoiwala -- Part II - Constructing passions -- Love and desire in French moralist discourse / Carin Franzén -- Between books and brothels: The sexual scholarship of Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) / Karen Hollewand -- The dream and the sin: Erotic dream in the France of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Juliette Lancel -- The lame man makes the best lecher: Sex, sin, and the disabled Renaissance body / Kaye McLelland -- Between passion and lust: Framing male desire in early modern Sweden / Jonas Liliequist -- Epilogue: What happens between the covers: Writing premodern desire for audiences beyond academia / Lois Leveen -- About the authors -- Index -- List of tables and pictures -- Table 1 - Incest prohibitions and penalties in Sweden in 1700 -- Picture 1 - Peasant women from the environs of Jaros?aw: married woman wearing a bonnet and maidens in wreaths -- Picture 2 - Image of Sappho (female classical poet) -- Picture 3 - Arrangement of images -- Picture 4 - Portrait of Beverland by Ary de Vois (1670s)