Citizens and Sodomites : : Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) / / Jonas Roelens.

• Superior document: Crime and City in History Series ; Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Roelens, Jonas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Crime and city in history ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 pages)

The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the fifteenth century: nowhere across the Alps were more sodomites convicted at the time. This is the first comprehensive study of sodomy in this region.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Figures
• Tables
• Abbreviations
• Part 1: Methodological and Discursive Framework
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Sodomy: a Contested Historiography
• 1.1 Homosexuals in History
• 1.2 Queer Theory
• 2 Sodomy: an Urban Vice? Geographical and Chronological Demarcation
• 2.1 Urban Justice in the Southern Netherlands
• 3 Sources and Methodology
• 3.1 A Quantitative Approach
• 3.2 A Qualitative Approach
• 4 Structure
• 5 Terminology
• 2 Sodomy in Religion, Law, and Popular Culture
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Religious Views on Sodomy
• 2.1 Defining a Taboo
• 2.2 The Religious Discourse on Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands
• 2.2.1 Jean Gerson
• 2.2.2 The Ten Commandments
• 3 Legal Views on Sodomy
• 3.1 A European Perspective
• 3.2 Law on Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands
• 3.2.1 Customary Law
• 3.2.2 Princely Legislation
• 3.2.3 Juridical Treatises
• 4 Cultural Views on Sodomy
• 4.1 Sodom and Gomorrah in Popular Culture
• 4.2 Sodomy in an Artistic Context
• 4.3 Depictions of Same-Sex Desire in the Southern Netherlands
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 2: Urban Prosecutions
• 3 Cycles in the Urban Prosecution Policy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Cycles in Early Modern Europe
• 2.1 Italy
• 2.2 The Iberian Peninsula
• 2.3 The Holy Roman Empire
• 2.4 France and England
• 2.5 The Northern Netherlands
• 2.6 Scandinavia
• 2.7 Russia
• 3 Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands: Facts and Figures
• 3.1 A Persecution with Ups and Downs
• 3.2 The Southern Netherlands: a Northern Precursor
• 4 The Sodomite as Scapegoat
• 4.1 Sodomy and the Persecuting Society
• 4.2 Jews
• 4.3 Heretics
• 4.4 Witches
• 4.5 Civic Morality in the Fifteenth Century
• 5 Bruges: Sodom of the North
• 6 Bruges and Its Reputation: Some Possible Explanations
• 6.1 State Authority
• 6.1.1 Bruges and the Burgundian Theatre-State.
• 6.1.2 Sodomy and the State
• 6.2 The Black Death
• 6.2.1 Associations between Sodomy and the Plague
• 6.2.2 The Plague in the Low Countries
• 6.3 Economic Crisis
• 6.3.1 The Economic Logic of Sodomy
• 6.3.2 The Economic Ups and Downs of a Medieval Metropole
• 6.3.3 A Sexual Economy
• 7 Conclusion
• 4 Social Profiles
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Young Sodomite
• 2.1 Recognizing Youth
• 2.2 Punishing Youth
• 2.3 Defining Youth
• 3 The Bourgeois Sodomite
• 3.1 Citizenship
• 3.2 Occupation
• 3.3 Marriage
• 3.4 Locations
• 3.5 Confiscations
• 4 The Noble Sodomite
• 4.1 Privileged People and Political Victims
• 4.2 Noble Sodomites in the Southern Netherlands
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 Clerical Sodomy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Clerical Sodomy in Context
• 3 Clerical Sodomites in the Southern Netherlands
• 4 Sodomy and the Reformation
• 5 The Sodomy Trials of 1578
• 6 Tridentine Reforms and Same-Sex Desires
• 7 Conclusion
• 6 Foreign Sodomy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Discursive Constructions of Sodomy
• 3 Migration in the Southern Netherlands
• 4 Migrant Sodomites in the Southern Netherlands
• 5 Conclusion
• 7 Female Sodomy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Female Sodomy in Theological and Legal Traditions
• 3 Female Sodomy Prosecution in the Southern Netherlands
• 4 Female Visibility as an Explanation?
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 3: Urban Discourses
• 8 Sodomy, Gossip, and Defamation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rumors and Gossip in the Early Modern City
• 3 Gossiping about Sodomy
• 4 Suspicious Communities or Severe Authorities?
• 5 Conclusion
• 9 Sodomy, Religious Conflict, and Urban Memory
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Anti-monasticism and the Ghent Sodomy Trial of 1578
• 3 Catholic Rehabilitation in City-Chronicles
• 4 Sodomy and Urban Memory
• 5 Conclusion
• 10 Sodomy, Witchcraft, and Public Discourse
• 1 Introduction.
• 2 The Remarkable Romance of Mayken and Magdaleene
• 3 Female Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Europe
• 4 Female Sodomy and Hermaphrodites
• 5 Sodomy and Witchcraft
• 6 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Appendix Chronological Overview per City
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Belgium
• National Archives of Belgium
• State Archives Bruges
• State Archives Brussels
• State Archives Ghent
• State Archives Liège
• State Archives Mons
• State Archives Namur
• City Archives Antwerp (Felixarchief)
• City Archives Bruges
• City Archives Brussels
• City Archives Ghent
• City Archives Leuven
• City Archives Mechelen
• City Archives Oudenaarde
• Archiepiscopal Archives Mechelen
• Episcopal Archives Bruges
• Archives of Saint Bavo's Cathedral Ghent
• Ghent University Library
• Royal Library of Belgium
• Henri Conscience Heritage Library
• Archives of the Public Center for Social Welfare Bruges
• France
• Archives départementales du Nord
• Série B
• Médiathèque Municipale Jean Lévy Lille
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• The Netherlands
• Royal Library The Hague
• Austria
• National Library of Austria
• Printed Sources
• Inventories and Catalogues
• Literature
• Index.