Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe - Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.

List 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

About the author

Noel Malcolm gained his doctorate at Cambridge, where he began his career as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, teaching History and English Literature; he was later Foreign Editor of the Spectator. In 1999 he was a lecturer at Harvard; he gave the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford in 2001. Since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has published numerous books and articles on early modern intellectual history, and Balkan history and culture. He was knighted in 2014 for services to scholarship, journalism and European history.

Summary

Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.

Additional text

A new book from Noel Malcolm is always an event and "Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe" does not disappoint. Combining polyglot archival virtuosity with perspicacious revisionism and literary elegance, "Forbidden Desire" is a work of breathtaking ambition and accomplishment... Historians of sexuality will be reckoning with this book for decades. And for the rest of us, the book is a wonderful opportunity to see the maestro at work. Not to be missed.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm , Noel Malcolm, Sir Noel (Senior Research Fellow Malcolm
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2024
• EAN: 9780198886334
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888633-4
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Social issues & processes, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gay & Lesbian studies, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Gender studies: men and boys, Sexual Behaviour, Gender Studies: Men, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics