Castration literature

[Glasgow_kiss (imported)]

I was reading in another thread about a book called Castration by Gary Taylor and it got me thinking if anyone within the archive has ever written a book about castration, particularly about the history of it through the ages and it's role in modern society now?

[Paolo]

I'm sorry.

Gary Taylor's book is probably the absolute WORST material on the subject of castration that one could possibly lay eyes upon.

[JesusA (imported)]

The most complete Bibliography (http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=17583) on castration and eunuchs of which I am aware is the listing of my own personal library that I have posted on the Non-Fiction Articles Board. I haven't updated the list since July and need to do so soon. I still have quite a number of items that I haven't typed up yet, including some books from the 19th and early 20th centuries that I have recently found in used book stores. For example, I just last week acquired a copy of Richard Millant's Les Eunuques à Travers les Âges. (Paris: Vigot Fréres, 1908).

While a number of the items on the bibliography are my own writings for medical journals, I know of no good comprehensive history of eunuchs that is in print. I hope to someday complete the one that is started on my computer, but that is a long way off....

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[Paolo]

A good book on the many facets of the subject is "Eunuchs & Castrati" by Piotr Scholz.

http://www.amazon.com/Eunuchs-Castrati- ... 1558762019

While it's obvious that the author might have been a bit out of his depth in tackling such a topic, it's still a good read.

Another one, alhtough it only focuses on the Italian castrati, is "World of the Castrati" by Patrick Barbier.

http://www.amazon.com/World-Castrati-Ex ... 730&sr=1-1

And of course, there is Jesus' list in our nonfiction section.