Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600 /
"During the late Middle Ages, a considerable number of men in Germany and Switzerland were executed for committing sodomy. Even in the seventeenth century, simply speaking of the act was cause for censorship. Here, in the first history of sodomy in these countries, Helmut Puff argues that accus...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Acts and words
- The politics of sodomy (1277-1532)
- Cases, conflicts, contexts
- The discourse of experts
- Acts without words, acts of silencing : the sixteenth century
- Part 2. Acting words
- Defamation as practice
- The art of defamation : humanists and reformers
- Sodomy in the Reformation pamphlet
- The close encounter of matrimony and sodomy.