In this episode Leah and Emma discuss the role of relationships (romantic and otherwise) to maintaining health, wellbeing and happiness in early modern Europe. We talk about compatibility, chastity, divorce, widowhood, masturbation, sex and sexuality in the period in literature, conduct texts and personal writings. This week's examples are a short story by Marguerite de Navarre, princess of France, brother of King François I, and author of some of the most celebrated literary works of her time; and some letters from a jilted lover, Thomas Green, from seventeenth-century Manchester found by Leah in the Lancashire Archives.

Sources

Thomas Green to Jane Robinson, 1657, Lancashire Record Office, Preston, DDHK/9/8/4

Marguerite de Navarre, Heptaméron (1558), nouvelle 67

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