The Pursuit of Sodomy
Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe

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