Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland 1400 - 1600 - =Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Klappentext AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Acts and Words1. The Politics of Sodomy (1277-1532)2. Cases, Conflicts, Contexts3. The Discourse of Experts4. Acts without Words, Acts of Silencing: The Sixteenth CenturyPart II Acting Words5. Defamation as Practice6. The Art of Defamation: Humanists and Reformers7. Sodomy in the Reformation Pamphlet8. The Close Encounter of Matrimony and SodomyConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex Zusammenfassung Drawing on both literary and historical evidence! Puff shows that speakers of German associated sodomy with Italy! and increasingly! the Catholic Church. This study will interest historians of gender! sexuality and religion! as well as scholars of medieval history and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Helmut Puff
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2003
• EAN: 9780226685069
• ISBN: 978-0-226-68506-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society; Chicago Series on Sexuality, H; Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society; Chicago Sexuality Hist & Society SHS (CHUP); The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology