Gregorio and Gianesino -- Diplomats, renegades and catamites -- Prejudices -- Ottoman realities -- Western Mediterranean realities: men and boys -- Contexts of sexual life -- Typical and untypical -- The Western Mediterranean lands -- Theology and religion -- Law and punishment -- Literary works -- Western Mediterranean attitudes -- Ottoman religion, law and culture -- Northern Europe: broad patterns -- Northern Europe: forms of sexual behaviour -- Northern Europe: contexts of sexual life -- Northern Europe: literary works -- European colonial societies -- England after 1700 -- France and the Netherlands after 1700 -- Conclusion: from sodomy to homosexuality
Summary
'Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe' is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world
Notes
Also issued in print: 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 28, 2023)
