Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe
200,00 lei

Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2024

Editura: Oxford University Press

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 608

ISBN: 9780198886334

Dimensiuni: l: 16cm | H: 24cm | 5cm | 866g

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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe
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A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere, they brought to light an extraordinary world of early modern sexual activity, extending from city streets and gardens to taverns, monasteries and Mediterranean galleys. Typically, the sodomites (as they were called) were adult men seeking sex with teenage boys.

This was something intriguingly different from modern homosexuality: the boys ceased to be desired when they became fully masculine. And the desire for them was seen as natural; no special sexual orientation was assumed. The rich evidence from Southern Europe in the Renaissance period was not matched in the Northern lands; historians struggled to apply this new knowledge to countries such as England or its North American colonies. And when good Northern evidence did appear, from after 1700, it presented a very different picture.

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