{"id":148,"date":"2017-02-21T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=148"},"modified":"2017-02-21T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:43:42","slug":"incest-taboo-in-the-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/incest-taboo-in-the-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Incest taboo in the Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Book 3 Canto XI, Britomart\u00a0has a brief run in with a giant, Ollyphant, and the Norton mentions that Ollyphant and his sister (also a giant) had an incestuous relationship and that this was Bad. But it made me curious about the incest taboo during the Renaissance period\u2014is it about the same as today, or are there any significant differences in terms of how we might\u00a0understand it? \u00a0(Strong\u00a0feeling that it&#8217;s going to be the latter.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I did do a cursory Google search of this and there didn&#8217;t seem to be any smaller articles on the subjects\u2014only books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I am wondering if anyone (coughProfessorKitchcough) might have an answer to this off the top of their heads?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Book 3 Canto XI, Britomart\u00a0has a brief run in with a giant, Ollyphant, and the Norton mentions that Ollyphant and his sister (also a giant) had an incestuous relationship and that this was Bad. But it made me curious about the incest taboo during the Renaissance period\u2014is it about the same as today, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}