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Forbidden desire in early modern Europe : male-male sexual relations, 1400-1750 /

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"This book describes and analyses the nature of male-male sexual relations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the European colonies in the Americas and Asia during the period 1400-1750. It discusses the sexual behaviour itself, its social and institutional contexts, the treatment of it in religi...

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Main Author: Malcolm, Noel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Europe > History.
Homosexuality > Turkey > History.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Islam > History.
Men who have sex with men > Europe > History
Men who have sex with men > Turkey > History
Homosexualité > Europe > Histoire.
Homosexualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire.
Homosexualité > Aspect religieux > Islam > Histoire.
Homosexualidad > Europa > Historia
Homosexualidad > Turquía > Historia
Homosexualidad > Aspectos religiosos > Cristianismo > Historia
Homosexualidad > Aspectos religiosos > Islamismo > Historia
Homosexuality
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Islam
Europe
Turkey
Society & culture: general.
Family and Relationships.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.