This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions. About the Author RICHARD GODBEER Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USA DAN HEALEY Senior...
This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.
List of IllustrationsixNotes on ContributorsxPrefacexiiiAcknowledgmentsxixIntroduction: Siting Queer Masculinitiesxx1Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland12Faust's Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany173The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550-1800374'Are Those People Like Us?' - Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland585Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550-1800776A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary947Can We 'Queer' Early Modern Russia?1068Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship1259Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia14410Colonial Latin America16611'Sodomitical Actings', 'Inward Disposition', and 'The Bonds of Brotherly Affection': Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America19112Homosexuality in Early Modern France21113Between Men in Early Modern England232Index252