BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
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Updated 19 June 2004

Early Modern European History

Barbier, Patrick
The World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon. Souvenir Press, 1999.
Barkan, Leonard
Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Brown, Judith C.
"Lesbian sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe", in Duberman et al., Hidden from History (1989), pp. 67-75.
Coward, D.A.
"Attitudes to homosexuality in eighteenth-century France", in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 35-59.
Fradenburg, Louise and Freccero, Carla (eds), with the assistance of Kathy Lavezzo
Premodern Sexualities. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
Gade, Kari Ellen
"Homosexuality and rape of males in Old Norse law and literature", in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 114-31.
Gerard, Kent, and Hekma, Gert (eds)
The Pursuit of Sodomy in Early Modern Europe. New York: Haworth, 1987.
Gilbert, Arthur N.
"Sexual Deviance and Disaster during the Napoleonic Wars", Albion 9 (Spring 1977), 98-113.
Hekma, Gert
"Sodomites, Platonic lovers, contrary lovers: The backgrounds of the modern homosexual", Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 16, nos. 1 and 2 (1988).
Hurteau, Pierre
"Catholic moral discourse on male sodomy and masturbation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 4(1) (1993), pp. 1-32.
Liliequist, Jonas
"State Policy, Popular Discourse, and the Silence on Homosexual Acts in Early Modern Sweden", Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 35, no. 3/4 (1998), pp. 15-52.
Maccubbin, Robert Purks (ed.)
'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality During the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Meulengracht Sorensen, Preben
The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Northern Society, trans. Joan Turville-Petre. Odense: Odense University Press, 1983.
Monter, William
"Sodomy: the fateful accident", in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 192-215.
Monter, E. William
"Sodomy and heresy in early modern Switzerland", in Licata and Petersen, The Gay Past, 41-53 (orig. pub. as "La Sodomie à l'époque moderne en Suisse romande", Annales esc., 29 (1975): 1023-33).
Mott, Luiz and Assuncao, Aroldo
"Love's labors lost: Five letters from a seventeenth-century Portuguese sodomite", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 91-101.
Murray, Stephen O.
"Homosexual acts and selves in early modern Europe", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), pp. 457-77.
Puff, Helmut
"Localizing sodomy: the `Priest and Sodomite' in Pre-Reformation Germany and Switzerland", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 8 (1997), pp. 165-95.
Rey, Michel
"Parisian homosexuals create a lifestyle, 1700-1750: The police archives", Eighteenth-Century Life, 9 (1985), 179-91.
Rey, Michel
"Police and sodomy in eighteenth-century Paris: From sin to disorder", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 129-46.
Rosen, Wilhelm von
"Sodomy in early modern Denmark: A crime without victims", Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 16, nos. 1 and 2 (1988).
Rousseau, G. S.
"'In the house of Madam Vander Tasse, on the Long Bridge': A homosocial university club in early modern Europe", Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 16, nos. 1 and 2 (1988).
Rousseau, G. S., and Porter, Roy (eds)
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987.
Rowland, Jon Thomas
"Swords in Myrtyl Dress'd": Toward a Rhetoric of Sodom: Gay Readings of Homosexual Politics and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
Scholz, Piotr O.
Eunuchs and Castrati: The Emasculation of Eros, M. Wiener Publishers, US, due November 1999.
Steakley, James D.
"Sodomy in Enlightenment Prussia: From execution to suicide", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 163-75.
Stewart, Alan
Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton University Press, 1997.
Turner, James Grantham (ed.)
Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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