Medieval History

Bailey, Derrick Sherwin

Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition. London: Longmans, Green, 1955.

Bein, Thomas

"Orpheus als Sodomit: Beobachtungen zu einer mhd. Sangspruchstrophe mit (literar)historischen Exkursen zur Homosexualität im hohen Mittelalter", Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 109 (1990): 33-55.

Bennett, Judith

" 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 9: 1-2 (January/April 2000): 1-24.

Boone, Marc

"State power and illicit sexuality: The persecution of sodomy in late medieval Bruges", Journal of Medieval History, 22 (1996): 135-53.

Boyd, David Lorenzo and Ruth Mazo Karras

" 'Ut cum muliere': A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth Century London", in Premodern Sexualities, edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carl Freccero. London: Routledge, 1996. (Originally in GLQ, 1995)

Boswell, John

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Boswell, John

"Dante and the sodomites", Dante Studies, 112 (1994): 33-51.

Boswell, John

The Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe. London: HarperCollins, 1995 (orig. pub. 1994).

Brall, Helmut

"Reflections of homosexuality in medieval poetry and chronicles", in Christoph Loreyu and John Plews (eds), Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998., pp. 89-105.

Brisson, Luc

Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. University of California Press, 2002.

Brooten, Bernadete J.

Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. University of Chiucago Press, 1996.

Brundage, James A.

"Politics of sodomy: Rex vs. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311)", in Joyce El Salisbury (ed.), Sex in the Middle Ages. New York: Garland, 1991, pp. 239-46.

Burgwinkle, William E.

Sodomy, Masculinity and Love in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Burman, Edward

Supremely Abominable Crimes: The Trial of the Knights Templar. London: Allison & Busby, 1996.

Dinshaw, Carolyn

"Chaucer's queer touches/A queer touches Chaucer", Exemplaria, 7 (1995): 75-92.

Frantzen, Allen J.

"Between the lines: Queer theory, the history of homosexuality, and Anglo-Saxon penitentials", Journal of Medieval and Early modern Studies, 26 (1996): 255-96.

Frantzen, Allen J.

"The disclosure of sodomy in Cleanness", PMLA, 111 (1996): 451.

Gilbert, Arthur N.

"Conceptions of homosexuality and sodomy in Western history", in Licata and Petersen, The Gay Past (1985), 57-68 (orig. pub. 1980).

Gilmour-Bryson, Anne

"Sodomy and the Knights Templar", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7 (1996): 151-83.

Goodich, Michael

"Sodomy in ecclesiastical law and theory", Journal of Homosexuality, 1 (1976): 427-34.

Goodich, Michael

"Sodomy in medieval secular law", Journal of Homosexuality, 1 (1976): 295-302.

Goodich, Michael

The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period. Santa Barbara CA and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1979.

Hallam, Paul

The Book of Sodom. London and New York: Verso, 1993.

Hergemöller, Bernd-Ulrich

Sodom and Gomorrah: On the everyday reality and persecution of homosexuals in the Middle Ages. Review.

Hotchkiss, Valerie

Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross-Dressing in Medieval Europe, New York: Garland, 1996.

Hutcheson, Gregory S.

"Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna", in Queer Iberia, edited by Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Jordan, Mark D.

The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Keiser, Elizabeth B.

Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia. The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts. Yale University Press, 1997.

Kolve, V.A.

"Ganymede/Son of Getron: Medieval Monasticism and the Drama of Same-Sex Desire", Speculum, 73:4 (1997): 1014-1067.

Kuefler, Matthew

The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Kuster, H. J. and Cormier, R. J.

"Old views and new trends: Observations on the problem of homosexuality in the Middle Ages", Studi Medievali, 25 (1984): 587-610.

Lansing, Carol

"Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy", Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, No. 2 (2005): 109.

Lankewish, Vincent A.

"Assault from behind: Sodomy, foreign invasion, and masculine identity in the Roman d'Enéas", in Sylvia Tomasch and Sealy Giles (eds), Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, p. 219.

Leneman, Helen

"Reclaiming Jewish history: homo-erotic poetry of the Middle Ages", Changing Men, 18 (Summer/Fall 1987), pp. 22-8.

Matter, E. Ann

"My Sister, my Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity", Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2 (1986): 81-83.

Mérida, Rafael M.

"Teorías presentes, amores medievales. En torno al estudio del homoerotismo en las culturas del Medioevo occidental", Revista de Poética Medieval, vol. 4 (2000), pp. 51-98.

McGuire, Brian Patrick

"Love, friendship and sex in the eleventh century: The experience of Anselm", Studia Theologica, 28 (1974): 111-52.

Nissinen, Martti Nissinen

Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective. Fortress Press, 1998

Norton, Rictor

"The historical roots of homophobia", in Leyland, Gay Roots, Vol. 2 (1993), 69-90.

Puff, Helmut

"Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)", Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 30 (2000): 41-61.

Raby, Michel J.

"Le péché 'contre nature' dans la littérature médiévale: deux cas", Romance Quarterly, 44, 4 (Fall 1997): 215-23.

Rosenthal, Franz

"Ar-Râzi on the Hidden Illness", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 52 (1978): 45-60.

Roth, Norman

"'Deal gently with the young man': Love of boys in medieval Hebrew poetry of Spain", Speculum, 57 (1982): 20-51.

Roth, Norman

"'Fawn of my delights': Boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic verse", in J. E. Salisbury (ed.), Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. New York: Garland, 1991, pp. 157-72.

Soreitzer, Brigitte

Die Stumme Sunde: Homosexualitat im Mittelalter. Goppingen, 1988. A collection of European documents relating to homosexuality.

Stehling, Thomas, trans.

Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship. New York: Garland, 1984.

Stehling, Thomas

"To love a medieval boy", Journal of Homosexuality, 8.3/4 (1983): 151-70.

Zeikowitz, Richard E.

Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-sex Desire in the 14th Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Annotations

Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship, trans. Thomas Stehling, vol. 7 in Garland Library of Medieval Literature, general editors James J. Wilhelm and Lowry Nelson, Jr. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. EXCELLENT. But mainly poetry. Ausonius (c.310-394); Paulinus of Nola (c.353-431) [incl. parts of letters between them]; Ennodius (c. 473-521); Luxorius (early 6thc); The Latin Anthology (early 6thc); Alcuin (c. 735-804); Walafrid Strabo (c.808-849) love poems addressed to named friends; Notker Balbuulus (c.840-912) love poems; Salomo (c.860-920) and Waldo, incl Salomo's replies to Notker; Godfrey of Winchester (c. 1107); Anselm (1033-1109), to Gundulf; Marbod of Rennes (c.1035-1123) to an absent friend; Baudri of Bourgueil (1046-1130) to a youth, dozens; Hildebert of Lavardin (c.1055-1133); Peter Abelard (1079- 1142); Hilary the Englishman (12thc); Bernard of Cluny (mid-12thc); Serlo of Wilton (c.1110-1181); Walter of Chatillon (c.1135-after 1184); graffiti; lesbian love letters; debates; Carmina Burana (c.1220-1230); extensive notes on biography and text.

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