Michael rocke forbidden friendships
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Rocke's idea is to take the records of thousands of reports and prosecutions for "sodomy" between and and put together a picture of same-sex activity sufficient to contrast with our new ideas of homosexuality. He eventually does achieve his goal, but not by crunching numbers. The author thinks he's doing a scientific study of the records, but he's only playing with percentages.
This researcher is fascinated with his subject, but he's too close to it to attain the objectivity needed to present this to the adj. His great weakness is his profound understanding of Italian culture during th
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (Studies in the History of Sexuality) - Softcover
Synopsis
"This is a superb serve of scholarship, impossible to overpraise It marks a milestone in the 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 had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In The Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life.
Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but an integral part of a normal mascu
Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence
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- Oxford : Oxford university press,
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- Gay men History. Italy Florence.
Homophobia History. Italy Florence.
Male homosexuality History. Italy Florence.
Renaissance Italy Florence.
Sodomy History. Italy Florence.
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