The Pursuit of Sodomy

Kent Gerard

Contents
Introduction



I. Italy and Iberia
Sodomites in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany: The Views of Bernardino of Siena
“Socratic Love” as a Disguise for Same-Sex Love in the Italian Renaissance
The “Nefarious Sin” in Early Modern Seville
Love’s Labors Lost: Five Letters From a Seventeenth-Century Portugese Sodomite
II. France, Germany, and Scandanavia
Homosexuality and the Court Elites of Early Modern France: Some Problems, Some Suggestions, and an Example
Police and Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Paris: From Sin to Disorder
The Personal, the Political, and the Aesthetic: Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s German Enlightenment Life
Sodomy in Early Modern Denmark: A Crime Without Victims
III. The Netherlands
Sodomy in the Dutch Republic, 1600–1725
Sodomy at Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope During the Eighteenth Century
Those Damned Sodomites: Public Images of Sodomy in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands
Prosecution of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century Frisia, Netherlands
The Persecutions of Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: Changing Perceptions of Sodomy
IV: England
“In the House of Madam Vander Tasse, on the Long Bridge”: A Homosocial University Club in Early Modern Europe
Sexuality and Augustan England: Sodomy, Politics, Elite Circles, and Society
Sodomy and Male Honor: The Case of Somerset, 1740–1850
Sodomitical Assaults, Gender Role, and Sexual Development in Eighteenth-Century London
V. Overviews
Sodomites, Platonic Lovers, Contrary Lovers: The Backgrounds of the Modern Homosexual
Homosexual Acts and Selves in Early Modern Europe
Index