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General Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Theology | 23 |
Matteo Bandello, Le novelle (1554): "The Tale of Porcellio," an Unrepentant Sodomite | 35 | |
Andrea Alciato, Emblemata, Emblem 4 (Ganymede), 1531; Emblem 80 ("Those Sinning against Nature"), 1546; Johannes Thuilius, Commentary on Emblem 80 (1621) | 43 | |
Jean Calvin, Commentaries on Genesis 19:4-25, Romans 1:24-31, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (c. 1550) | 50 | |
St. Peter Canisius, A Sum of Christian Doctrine (1555): Sins of Lust and Sodomy | 56 | |
Henri Estienne, Apology for Herodotus (1566): Sodomy and Sins against Nature | 59 | |
Andrew Willet, Commentaries on Leviticus 18:22, 20:13 (1631), Romans 1:26-27 (1611) | 64 | |
Thomas Wilson, Commentary on Romans 1:26-17, 31 (1614) | 68 | |
Thomas Beard, The Theater of God's Judgements (1597): "Effeminate Persons, Sodomites, and Other Suchlike Monsters" | 70 | |
2 | Law | 75 |
English Sodomy Statutes: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I | 86 | |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Travel Journal (written 1580-81): Reports of Married Sodomites and a Woman Who Married a Woman | 90 | |
Franz Hogenberg, Scenes of the Religious and Civil Wars: Public Executions of Sodomites, 1578 | 91 | |
Sir Edward Coke, A Book of Entries (1614), Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1644, written decades earlier), Twelfth Part of the Reports (1656, written decades earlier): Sodomy Laws and Prosecutions | 94 | |
The Stafford Scandal, 1607, The Arraignment, Judgment, Confession, and Execution of Humphrey Stafford, Gentleman (1607): Sodomy Trial | 99 | |
The Castlehaven Scandal, 1630-31, The Trial of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a Rape and Sodomy (1719), The Execution of Fitzpatrick and Broadway (1719), both derived from ms. accounts c. 1631: Trials and Executions of the Earl of Castlehaven and Two Male Servants | 101 | |
Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon: Prosecution for "Lewd Behavior Each with Other upon a Bed" (1648) | 113 | |
3 | Medicine | 115 |
Pseudo-Aristotle, Problems, 4.26 (before c. 500): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus | 122 | |
Caelius Aurelianus, On Chronic Diseases, 4.9 (c.200/400): Effeminate Men or Pathics | 124 | |
Avicenna (Ibn Sina), The Canon of Medicine (c. 1010): Sexually Penetrated Men, Hermaphrodites, and Conditions of Male and Female Sexual Pleasure | 127 | |
Pietro d'Abano, Commentary on the Problems of Aristotle, 4.26 (c. 1310): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus | 130 | |
Rodrigo de Castro, On the Universal Medical Art of Women (1603): Feminine Genitals and Tribadism | 141 | |
Andre du Laurens, Anatomical Account of the Human Body (1593): Feminine Genitals | 143 | |
Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Differences of Male and Female Genitals, Sexual Pleasure, Changes of Sex, Tribadism, and Intermediate Sex | 144 | |
John Marten, A Treatise of All the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease (1704): Contagion through Anal and Oral Intercourse between Males | 154 | |
4 | Astrology | 157 |
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (c. 150): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars | 165 | |
Julius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis (c. 340): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars | 170 | |
Leone Ebreo, Dialogues on Love (written c. 1502): Astral Influences on Feminine and Masculine Love, and on Males Who Love Males Both "Passively" and " Actively" | 175 | |
5 | Physiognomics | 179 |
Bartolommeo della Rocca (Cocles), Rebirth of Chiromancy and Physiognomy (1504): Sings of Nefarious Lust on Female Hands; Thomas Hill, The Contemplation of Mankind (1571): Bodily Signs of Gender Affiliation and the Cinaedus | 184 | |
Giambattista della Porta, On Human Physiognomy (1586, 1599): Physical Signs for Detecting a Cinaedus; How Cinaedus Can Become Tough | 191 | |
Giovanni Antonio Magini (?), Metoposcopy (written c. 1600): Sex Differences and Sodomy Revealed in Foreheads | 195 | |
6 | Encyclopedias and Reference Works | 201 |
Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, Historical Miscellany (1531): Origins of Masculine Love; Unbelievable Lusts of the Etruscans | 207 | |
Theodor Zwinger, The Theater of Human Life (1565): Exemplars of Masculine Love and Tribades | 209 | |
7 | Prodigious Monstrosities | 225 |
Jakob Ruff, The Generation and Birth of Man (1544): Monstrous Births, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy | 231 | |
Ambroise Pare, Of Monsters and Prodigies (1573, 1575): Monsters, Feminine Genitals, Tribades, Changes of Sex, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy | 234 | |
Claude de Tesserant, Fouteen Prodigious Accounts (c. 1568): Monsters, Hermaphrodites, Sex Changes, Sex between Males, Nero, Elagabalus | 240 | |
Joseph Hall, Another World Yet the Same (1605): the Isle of Hermaphrodites | 247 | |
Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Monsters and Hermaphrodites | 248 | |
8 | Love and Friendship | 251 |
Marsilio Ficino, On Love (written 1469): Love between Males, between Males and Female | 260 | |
Angelo Poliziano, The Fable of Orpheus (written c. 1480): Orphic Origins of Masculine Love | 271 | |
Agnolo Firenzuola, Dialogue on the Beauty of Women (written 1541): Love between Females, between Males, between Males and Females | 274 | |
Laudomia Forteguerri, Sonnets (written c. 1535-1540): Love Sonnets between Females | 279 | |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (1580): On Friendship | 284 | |
Anonymous (ms. c. 1586), "As Phoebus In His Sphere's Height": Love between Females | 295 | |
Brantome, or Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (written c. 1585): Sodomy, Tribades, Lesbians, and the Scandal of Sodomy | 298 | |
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): Tyrannies of Lust and Sodomy; Astrological and Other Causes of Sex Differences | 310 | |
9 | The Sapphic Renaissance | 317 |
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Chronicles of Poets Both Greek and Roman (1545): Sappho | 321 | |
Andre Thevet, True Portraits and Lives of Illustrious Men (1584): Life of Sappho, the Lesbian Poetess | 325 | |
Pontus de Tyard, "Elegy for One Woman Enamored with Another" (1573) | 329 | |
Pierre de Ronsard, Sapphic Elegy with Envoy (1565), Sapphic Elegy (ms., c. 1565, Ronsard?) | 331 | |
John Donne, "Sappho to Philaenis" (written c. 1600) | 336 | |
Tanguy Le Fevre, The Greek Poets (1664): Sappho | 339 | |
10 | Erotica | 343 |
Pietro Aretino, The Dialogues (1534, 1536): Sex Games in a Nunnery; Husbands of Monks and Priests | 355 | |
Antonio Rocco, The Boy Alcibiades at School (1651?, written before 1630): Teaching Masculine Love; Its Rationales and Pleasures | 365 | |
Endnotes | 373 | |
Permissions | 421 | |
Index of Anthologized Authors and Headings | 423 |
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