Homosexuality in renaissance England Book

So, this book was...good. But also really, really, REALLY academic and rambly. Still I found the material fascinating. Alan Bray seems at times like he's not entirely sure how he will be able to support the argument he's making, or whether or not an argument can even be made, but once the reader pushes past this uncertainty they'll arrive at a passage where he explores the presence and existence of homosexuality in Renaissance England and the often tragic existence such men faced. I say men because consistently nobody ever bothered tp write down anything about lesbianism, which I think is uncool.

Moving on.

Homosexuality in Renaissance England is an important book for being one of the earliest attempts at exploring the topic of homosexuality in history as a legitimate topic. For this reason, the book deserves plenty of street-cred. Still, it's also a book which has a lot of structural issue and bounces between what it wants and what it can actually give. Any reader who approaches this book can expect a fair amount of thick and academic discourse, but also plenty of insightful passages about homosexuality in the culture of the Renaissance.

It's a flawed book, but it ain't bad book y'all.