| Description |
xvi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-420) and index. |
| Summary |
"Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance is an unprecedented collection of writings significant for the history of homosexuality and its precursors, drawn from literary, philosophical, religious, and scientific texts published between 1470 and 1650. While the documentary remains of early modern homoeroticism are scattered and fragmentary, and prior studies have focused either on males or on females, this anthology brings together in one convenient volume key readings for both male and female same-sex erotics. The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings, popular encyclopedias, and literature, as well as continental vernacular and Latin sources never before available in English translation. The selections are assembled in ten chapters addressing particular discursive fields--Theology, Law, Medicine, Astrology, Physiognomics, Encyclopedias and Reference Works, Prodigious Monstrosities, Love and Friendship, the Sapphic Renaissance, and Erotica. Each chapter includes a substantial introduction summarizing its topic and its relation to early modern homoeroticism. The volume also poignantly addresses key issues in Renaissance thinking about sexual identity, and newly clarifies central problems and debates in the historiography of same-sex love. With a wealth of primary sources and informative introductions, this remarkable anthology is the essential reference for male and female homoeroticism in the English Renaissance"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
General introduction -- Note on terminology -- 1. Theology -- Matteo Bandello -- Le novelle (1554): "the tale of Porcellio," an unrepentant sodomite -- Andrea Alciato -- Emblemata, emblem 4 (Ganymede) (1531) -- Emblem 80 ("Those sinning against nature") (1546) -- Johannes Thuilius -- Commentary on emblem 80 (1621) -- Jean Calvin -- Commentaries on Genesis 19:4-25, Romans 1:24-31, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (c.1550) -- St. Peter Canisius -- A sum of Christian doctrine (1555): sins of lust and sodomy -- Henri Estienne -- Apology for Herodotus (1566): sodomy and sins against nature -- Andrew Willet -- Commentaries on Leviticus 18:22, 20:13 (1631), Romans 1:26-27 (1611) -- Thomas Wilson -- Commentary on Romans 1:26-27, 31 (1614) -- Thomas Beard -- Theater of God's judgments (1597): "effeminate persons, Sodomites, and other suchlike monsters" -- 2. Law -- English sodomy statutes: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- Travel journal (written 1580-81): reports of executed sodomites and a Woman who married a woman -- Franz Hogenberg -- Scenes of the religious and Civil Wars: public executions of sodomites (1578) -- 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 -- Stafford scandal, 1607, The arraignment, judgment, confession, and execution of Humphrey Stafford, gentleman (1607): sodomy trial -- 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 -- Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon -- Prosecution for "lewd behavior each with other upon a bed " (1648) -- 3. Medicine -- Pseudo-Aristotle -- Problems, 4.26: (before c. 500) : why some males enjoy insertive and others receptive coitus -- Caelius Aurelianus -- On chronic diseases, 4.9 (c. 200/c. 400): effeminate men or pathics -- Avicenna (Idn Sīnā) -- Canon of medicine (c.1010): sexually penetrated men, hermaphrodites, and conditions of male and female sexual pleasure -- Pietro d'Abano -- Commentary on the problems of Aristotle, 4.26 (c.1310): why some males enjoy insertive and others receptive coitus. |
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Rodrigo de Castro -- On the Universal Medical Art of Women (1603): feminine genitals and tribadism -- Andreʹ du Laurens -- Anatomical account of the human body (1593): feminine genitals -- 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 -- John Marten -- A treatise of all the degrees and symptoms of the venereal disease (1704): contagion through anal and oral intercourse between males -- 4. Astrology -- Claudius Ptolemy -- Tetrabiblos (c.150): homoerotic inclinations from the stars -- Julius Firmicus Maternus -- Mathesis (c. 340): homoerotic inclinations from the stars -- 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" -- 5. Physiognomics -- Bartolommeo della Rocca (Cocles) -- Rebirth of Chiromancy and Physiognomy (1504): signs of nefarious lust on female hands -- Thomas Hill -- Contemplation of mankind (1571): bodily signs of gender affiliation and the cinaedus -- Giambattista della Porta -- On human physiognomy (1586,1599): Physical signs for detecting a cinaedus; how cinaedi can become tough -- Giovanni Antonio Magini -- Metoposcopy (written c. 1600): sex differences and sodomy revealed in foreheads -- 6. Encyclopedias and reference works -- Niccolò Leonico Tomeo -- Historical miscellany (1531): origins of masculine love ; unbelievable lusts of the Etruscans -- Theodor Zwinger -- Theater of human life (1565): exemplars of masculine love and tribades -- 7. Prodigious monstrosities -- Jakob Rüff -- Generation and birth of man (1544): monstrous births, hermaphrodites, and sodomy -- Ambroise Pareʹ -- Of monsters and prodigies (1573-75): monsters, feminine genitals, tribades, changes of sex, hermaphrodites, and sodomy -- Claude de Tesserant -- Fourteen prodigious accounts (c.1568): monsters, hermaphrodites, sex Changes, sex between males, Nero, Elagabalus -- Joseph Hall -- Another world yet the same (1605): the isle of hermaphrodites -- Helkiah Crooke -- Microcosmographia: a description of the body of man (1615): monsters and hermaphrodites. |
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8. Love and friendship -- Marsilio Ficino -- On love (written 1469): love between males, between males and females -- Angelo Poliziano -- Fable of Orpheus (written c.1480): orphic origins of masculine love -- Agnolo Firenzuola -- Dialogue on the beauty of women (written 1541): love between females, between males, between males and females -- Laudomia Forteguerri -- Sonnets (written c.1535-1540): love sonnets between females -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- Essays (1580): on friendship -- Anonymous (ms. c.1586) -- "As Phoebus In his sphere's height": love between females -- Brantôme or Pierre de Bourdeille -- Lives of fair and gallant ladies (written c.1585): sodomy, tribades, lesbians, and the scandal of sodomy -- Robert Burton -- Anatomy of melancholy (1621): tyrannies of lust and sodomy ; Astrological and other causes of sex differences -- 9. Sapphic renaissance -- Lilio Gregorio Giraldi -- Chronicles of poets both Greek and Roman (1545): Sappho -- Andreʹ Thevet -- True portraits and lives of illustrious men (1584): Life of Sappho, the lesbian Poetess -- Pontus de Tyard -- "Elegy for one woman enamored with another" (1573) -- Pierre de Ronsard -- Sapphic Elegy with Envoy (1565), Sapphic Elegy (ms., c. 1565, Ronsard?) -- John Donne -- "Sappho to Philaenis" (written c.1600) -- Tanguy Le Fèvre -- Greek Poets (1664): Sappho -- 10. Erotica -- Pietro Aretino -- Dialogues (1534, 1536): sex games in a nunnery ; Husbands of monks and priests -- Antonio Rocco -- Boy Alcibiades at school (1651, written before 1630): teaching masculine love; Its rationales and pleasures. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Sources.
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Homosexuality -- Literary collections.
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Homosexuality. |
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Literary collections.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Translations into English.
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Sexual orientation -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.
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Sexual orientation. |
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History. |
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16th century |
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Sources.
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Sexual orientation -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
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17th century |
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Homosexuality -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.
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Homosexuality -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
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Renaissance -- England -- Sources.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
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English literature -- Early modern. |
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European literature -- Renaissance. |
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1450 - 1700 |
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History.
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Translations.
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Homosexuality. |
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Sexual orientation. |
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Sexual preference. |
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Borris, Kenneth.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Same-sex desire in the English Renaissance. New York : Routledge, 2004 (OCoLC)607056459 |
| ISBN |
0203499166 |
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0815336268 (acid-free paper) |
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9780815336266 (acid-free paper) |
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9780203499160 |
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