Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / Michael Rocke.
Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / Michael Rocke.
Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / Michael Rocke.
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New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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English
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1 online resource (536 p.)
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Florence and Sodomy; PART I; 1: Making Problems: Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century; Traditional Controls; Agitation for Reform, 1400-1432; The Attack from the Pulpit:...
Sexual Roles and Behavior Boys and Men; Becoming a Man; 4: Social Profiles; Young and Old; Bachelors and Husbands; Provenance and Residence; Social Composition; 5: "Great Love and Good Brotherhood": Sodomy and Male Sociability; Encounters; The Character of Sodomitical Relations; Family Complicity; F...
Epilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century Appendix A: Penalties Levied; Appendix B: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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New York (State)
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1996.
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""This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies.""--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that ""Florenzer"" in German meant ""sodomite."" In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men ha...
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Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / Michael Rocke.
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Studies in the History of Sexuality
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--State University of New York at Binghamton).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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74VKV8XP8qNb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8XP8qNb
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1-60256-304-7
0-19-028412-9
1-280-47088-7
0-19-535268-8
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306.76/62/0945/51
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991024189547302626
