Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome - Gary Ferguson

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2021
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5526-2 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome.


Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an incredible amount of detail about the men, their sex lives, and how others responded to this information, which allows him to explore attitudes toward marriage, sex, and gender at the time. Emphasizing the instability of marriage in premodern Europe, Ferguson argues that same-sex unions should be considered part of the institution's complex and contested history.

Gary Ferguson is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance and Mirroring Belief.

Introduction: Engagement

PART I. STORIES—OBSERVERS

1. A French Writer Visits: Montaigne's Travel Journal and a Thrice-Told Tale

2. "Our Marriages"? Male to Male / Like Husband and Wife

3. Marriage— Rites, Analogues, Meanings

4. Other Witnesses, Other Stories

PART II. STORIES—ACTORS

5. Final Hours: Wills and Execution

6. Voices on Trial: Beginning with Battista the Boatman

7. Saint John at the Latin Gate: Marco Pinto

8. Marriage as Alibi, as Euphemism, as Recruitment

9. Marriage and Community

PART III. HISTORIES

10. Looking Forward / Looking Back: The History of Sexuality

11. Ghost Stories: Queer History

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-5017-5526-9 / 1501755269
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-5526-2 / 9781501755262
Zustand Neuware
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