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Love Potions Through the Ages: A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores

Chapter 19: SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Harry E. Wedeck
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An interdisciplinary survey examines the history and varieties of amatory devices and philtres from antiquity through the Middle Ages and across Asian traditions, cataloguing rituals, ingredients, and associated beliefs. It treats Greek and Roman erotic cults and literary testimony, Near Eastern and Indian manuals and temple practices, medieval occultism and alchemical recipes, and popular anecdotes and legal and moral responses. Chapters analyze ingredients, preparation methods, potency claims, talismans and periapts, and the social contexts that produced them, while cautioning against practical use. The tone is scholarly and descriptive, drawing on literary, folkloric, and historical sources to map continuities and regional variations.

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Benoit, H. The Many Faces of Love. New York: Pantheon, c. 1955.

Bibliotheca Erotica Moniacensis. A German collection of erotica.

Bibliotheca Roloffiana. A collection of erotica published in Germany in the eighteenth century.

Blondeau, Nicolas. Dictionnaire Erotique. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1885.

Clauder, Johannes. De Philtris. Leipzig, 1661.

Decle, L. Three Years in Savage Africa. London: Methuen, 1898.

Dufour, H. Histoire de la Prostitution chez tous les Peuples du Monde. Bruxelles: 1857.

Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine. The Gods of Generation. English translation by A.F.N. Privately printed. New York: Panurge Press, 1934.

Ellis, Havelock. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. 2 volumes. New York: Random House, c. 1938–1942.

Epton, N. C. Love and the French. London: Cassell, 1959.

Epton, N. C. Love and the English. London: Cassell, 1960.

Epton, N. C. Love and the Spanish. London: Cassell, 1961.

Flacelière, Robert. Love in Ancient Greece. Trans. by J. Cleugh. London: Muller, 1962.

Gilbert, O. P. Men in Women’s Guise. London: John Lane, 1926.

Gilbert, O. P. Women in Men’s Guise. London: John Lane, 1932.

Goncourt, E and J De. La Femme au dix-huitième Siècle. Paris, 1902.

Gregorovius, F. A. Der Ghetto und die Juden in Rom. Berlin: Schocken Verlag, 1935.

Hervé-Piraus, F.R. Les Temples d’Amour au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris, 1910.

King, L. W. Babylonian Magic and Sorcery. London: 1896.

Laurent, E. Magica Sexualis. New York: Anthropological Press, 1934.

Mantegazza, Paolo. English translation under the title Sexual Relations of Mankind. Privately printed. New York: Anthropological Press, 1932.

Rodocanachi, E. P. La Femme italienne: avant, pendant et après la Renaissance: sa vie privée et mondaine, son influence sociale. Paris: Hachette, 1922.

Wolff, J. F. Dissertatio de Philtris. Wittenberg, 1726.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.