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Book SynopsisIntroduction by Jasmina Korczak-Siedlecka and Michael Zok.- PART I - STARTING POINT: THE EARLY AND HIGH MIDDLE AGES: CHRISTIANISATION OF SEXUALITIES AND PAGAN HERITAGE.- Krzysztof Skwierczynski; The Christianisation of Medieval Poland and Norms of Sexual Activity Prescribed by the Church.- PART II - THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: SEXUALITIES AMONG 'SHEPHARDS' AND 'FLOCKS'.- Marek Stawski; A Bit of Chastity and Modesty: Sexuality of the Clergy in Late Medieval Prussia and in the Diocese of Plock.- Malgorzata Kolacz-Chmiel; Sex Life of the Peasant Population vs. Christian Norms and Cannon Law in Late Medieval Poland.- PART III - THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: SEXUALITIES IN CONFESSIONALISED COMMUNITIES.- Iurii Zazuliak; Sexual Boundaries, Religious-Ethnic Segregation and the Estate Solidarities in Red Ruthenia (Galicia) During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.- Jasmina Korczak-Siedlecka; On the Hunt for Sinners: How Lutherans Tried to Discipline the Sex Live in the Countryside in the Eighteenth Century.- Tomasz Wislicz; 'Man cannot do without sin ...': The Catholic Church and Peasant Sexual Ethics in Early Modern Poland.- PART IV - THE 'LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY' AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD: SEXUALITIES IN MODERNISING SOCIETIES.- Alicja Urbanik-Kopec; 'Abhor the sin as the snake': The Relationship Between the Teaching of Catholic Church and Working-class Female Sexuality in the Kingdom of Poland in the Late Nineteenth Century.- Natalia Kolb and Natalia Mysak; Body vs Soul: Catholic Church, Religious Upbringing and Sexual Problems of Galician Youths in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.- Marcin Wilk; Sex, Youth, and Moral Panic in an Interwar Polish City: The Case of Tarnów.- PART V - TERMINUS: THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - DE- OR RE- CHRISTIANISATION OF SEXUALITIES?.- Michael Zok; 'We should admit that we have fewer true Catholics than statistics show': Sexuality, (Post-)Communism, and the Catholic Church in Poland.- Afterword by Sabrina Ramet.
