Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status : : Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age / / Cristian Berco.

Despite the increasing popularity of queer scholarship, no major work in English thus far has explored the evidence of male homosexual behaviour found in the inquisitorial court records of early modern Spain. This absence seems all the more glaring considering the wealth of available archival materi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Dynamics of Male-on-Male Sodomy: Age, Gender, and the Dialectics of Dominance
  • 2 The Breadth of Same-Sex Male Eroticism: Sexual Geography, Masculinity, and Male Sociability
  • 3 Subverting Social Order: Homosexual Behaviour and Sexual Misalliance
  • 4 Sodomy, the Aragonese Tribunals, and Local Authorities
  • 5 Trial Procedure, Inquisitors, and the Social Context of Sodomy Cases
  • 6 Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index