6.0714 Rs: Quirinus; Birth Control (2/32)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 6 May 1993 18:54:48 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0714. Thursday, 6 May 1993.


(1) Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 16:44:07 -0800 (11 lines)
From: blspahr@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 6.0708 @Qs: Quirinus Kuhlmann; Reference Works (2/38)

(2) Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 23:42:27 +0100 (BST) (21 lines)
From: Gordon Inkster <mla002@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 6.0697 Madame Bovary and Birth Control? (1/45)

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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 16:44:07 -0800
From: blspahr@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 6.0708 @Qs: Quirinus Kuhlmann; Reference Works (2/38)


Your source is correct. The poem comes from Quirinus Kuhlmann: Himmlische
Libes-Kusse (1671). It is readily available in a reprint edition, ed. by
Birgit Biehl-Werner (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1971) in the series
Deutsche Neudrucke, Reihe: Barock. Series ed. Erich Trunz. The poem begins
on p. 53. It is quite a famous one. Blake Lee Spahr

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Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 23:42:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Gordon Inkster <mla002@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 6.0697 Madame Bovary and Birth Control? (1/45)

My colleague Ralph Gibson ("A Social History of French Catholicism",
1989, but computerphobe) assures me he has reflected on this many
times. Years spent in the Diocesan Archives of Perigueux studying
priests' Easter reports to the Bishops of latest trends in "sin" have
sensitized him to such questions. The literature on the subject of
contraception in 18th /19thC France is voluminous (he claims). He
insists with immodest certainty that there can be no doubt whatsoever a
man of Rodolphe's class and character would practise premature
withdrawal (*decharger son ble devant le moulin*). And that thereafter
Emma, newly apprised, would teach it to Leon. (The subject not having
figured in her convent curriculum.)
It is of course a "How many children had Lady Macbeth" sort of
question, but he considers all literary matters as such.

(Afterthought: Flaubert's correspondence has some veiled but revealing
comments on allied matters.)