The Pursuit of Sodomy

Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe

Kent Gerard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

566 Seiten

1989
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-918393-49-4 (ISBN)

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Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make availablefor the first time to an English-speaking audiencethe best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexualduring the pivotal era of 1400 to 1800is thoroughly explored.

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.

Kent Gerard

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.1.1989
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	1050 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-918393-49-3 / 0918393493
ISBN-13	978-0-918393-49-4 / 9780918393494
Zustand	Neuware