
1st Edition
The Pursuit of Sodomy
Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
Copyright Year 1989
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Book Description
Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make available--for the first time to an English-speaking audience--the best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexual--during the pivotal era of 1400 to 1800--is thoroughly explored. A wide-ranging group of authors offers relevant and fascinating material on sexual history and sexuality, in general, and on homosexuality and European history, in particular.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction
- I. Italy and Iberia
- Sodomites in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany: The Views of Bernardino of Siena
- “Socratic Love” as a Disguise for Same-Sex Love in the Italian Renaissance
- The “Nefarious Sin” in Early Modern Seville
- Love’s Labors Lost: Five Letters From a Seventeenth-Century Portugese Sodomite
- II. France, Germany, and Scandanavia
- Homosexuality and the Court Elites of Early Modern France: Some Problems, Some Suggestions, and an Example
- Police and Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Paris: From Sin to Disorder
- The Personal, the Political, and the Aesthetic: Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s German Enlightenment Life
- Sodomy in Early Modern Denmark: A Crime Without Victims
- III. The Netherlands
- Sodomy in the Dutch Republic, 1600–1725
- Sodomy at Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope During the Eighteenth Century
- Those Damned Sodomites: Public Images of Sodomy in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands
- Prosecution of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Frisia, Netherlands
- The Persecutions of Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: Changing Perceptions of Sodomy
- IV: England
- “In the House of Madam Vander Tasse, on the Long Bridge”: A Homosocial University Club in Early Modern Europe
- Sexuality and Augustan England: Sodomy, Politics, Elite Circles, and Society
- Sodomy and Male Honor: The Case of Somerset, 1740–1850
- Sodomitical Assaults, Gender Role, and Sexual Development in Eighteenth-Century London
- V. Overviews
- Sodomites, Platonic Lovers, Contrary Lovers: The Backgrounds of the Modern Homosexual
- Homosexual Acts and Selves in Early Modern Europe
- Index