Elyse Semerdjian: Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo

USA 2016, 247 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Elyse Semerdjian (teacher of Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Whitman College) analyzes how the shari'a courts of Ottoman Aleppo treated the crime of zina, which has been defined as »any sexual intercourse between persons who are not in a state of legal matrimony or concubinage,« and is thus an umbrella category for adultery, prostitution, procurement, abduction, incest, bestiality, sodomy, rape, ... Weiterlesen

Justine Saracen: Sistine Heresy

USA 2009, 252 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Eros, art, and gorgeous blasphemy: Adrianna Borgia, survivor of the Borgia court, presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptation of her life while struggling herself with soul-threatening desires and heresies. Her growing passion for the painter Raphaela Bramante mirrors the sculptor's damnable interest in a castrato in the Sistine choir and in the ideas of secular humanism. Claimed as the epitome ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Davies: Rebeccah and the Highwayman

USA 2008, 260 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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It's 1706, the time of good Queen Anne. Mistress Rebeccah Dutton never dreamed that several encounters with the notorious highwayman Blue-Eyed Nick on the deserted heaths around London would turn her respectable world upside down. When she discovers the highwayman is actually a woman named Kate, her curiosity about the dashing thief turns into fascination. Kate has to deal with ... Weiterlesen

Gavin Morris: Virginia Bedfellows

USA 2006, 276 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Two men - Lance Morley and Adam Bradley - living as lovers in 18th-century America face fear, prejudice, and death. Banished from England and forced to work as indentured servants in colonial Virginia, these men share a secret. They find love, passion, and pleasure on the Ashley Landing plantation, building a life together that's immoral in the eyes of society ... Weiterlesen

Federico G. Carvajal: Butterflies Will Burn

USA 2003, 310 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or »vir« went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the »abominable crime and sin against nature« - sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Goldberg (ed.): Queering the Renaissance

USA 1994, 388 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
»Queering the Renaissance« offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. USA 1979, 496 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Womens Press
A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. Here the author explores the different forms which that love has taken over the years, from the elaborate deceptions of Deborah Sampson, soldier of the American Revolution, to the genteel Ladies of Llangollen and the notorious »Boston marriages« of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety ... Weiterlesen