Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Editorial Practice and Using this Handbook General Introduction Note on Terminology 1. Theology Introduction Matteo Bandello, Novelle (1554): 'the Tale of Porcellio an Unrepentant Sodomite Andrea Alciato, Emblemata, Emblem 4 (Ganymede), 1531 Emblem 80 ('those Sinning Against Nature'), 1546 Johannes Thuillius, 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, The Theatre of God's Judgments (1597): 'Effeminate Persons, Sodomites and Other Suchlike Monsters' 2. Law Introduction English Sodomy Statues: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Travel Journal (written 1580-91): 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 English (1644, written decades earlier), Twelfth Part of the Reports (1656, written decades earlier): Sodomy Laws and Prosecutions The Stafford Scandal, 1630-31, The Trial of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a Rape and Sodomy (1719), The Execution of Fitzpatrick and Broadway (1707/8), 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 Introduction Pseudo-Aristotle, Problems4.26: Why Some Males Enjoy Receptive and Others Receptive Coitus Caelius Aurelianus, On Chronic Diseases, 4.9 (c.400): Effeminate Men or Pathics Avicenna, The 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 Rodrigo de Castro, On the Universal Medical Art of Women (1603): Feminine Genitals and Tribadism Andre 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 (1708): Contraction through Anal and Oral Intercourse between Males 4. Astrology Introduction

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