Pursuit of Sodomy

<p>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.</p> <p>Contents <br>Introduction</p><ul> <li> I. Italy and Iberia </li> <li> Sodomites in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany: The Views of Bernardino of Siena </li> <li> “Socratic Love” as a Disguise for Same-Sex Love in the Italian Renaissance </li> <li> The “Nefarious Sin” in Early Modern Seville </li> <li> Love’s Labors Lost: Five Letters From a Seventeenth-Century Portugese Sodomite </li> <li> II. France, Germany, and Scandanavia </li> <li> Homosexuality and the Court Elites of Early Modern France: Some Problems, Some Suggestions, and an Example </li> <li> Police and Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Paris: From Sin to Disorder </li> <li> The Personal, the Political, and the Aesthetic: Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s German Enlightenment Life </li> <li> Sodomy in Early Modern Denmark: A Crime Without Victims </li> <li> III. The Netherlands </li> <li> Sodomy in the Dutch Republic, 1600–1725 </li> <li> Sodomy at Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope During the Eighteenth Century </li> <li> Those Damned Sodomites: Public Images of Sodomy in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands </li> <li> Prosecution of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Frisia, Netherlands </li> <li> The Persecutions of Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: Changing Perceptions of Sodomy </li> <li> IV: England </li> <li> “In the House of Madam Vander Tasse, on the Long Bridge”: A Homosocial University Club in Early Modern Europe </li> <li> Sexuality and Augustan England: Sodomy, Politics, Elite Circles, and Society </li> <li> Sodomy and Male Honor: The Case of Somerset, 1740–1850 </li> <li> Sodomitical Assaults, Gender Role, and Sexual Development in Eighteenth-Century London </li> <li> V. Overviews </li> <li> Sodomites, Platonic Lovers, Contrary Lovers: The Backgrounds of the Modern Homosexual </li> <li> Homosexual Acts and Selves in Early Modern Europe </li> <li> Index</li> </ul>