BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY Compiled by Rictor Norton
INDEX: [General History]
[Anthologies]
[Lesbian: General]
[Pre-Modern Lesbian]
[Modern Lesbian]
[Literary History]
[Language]
[Art & Film]
[Theory]
[Famous Homosexuals]
[Anthropology]
[Ancient]
[Early Modern]
[Renaissance]
[European]
[English Early Modern]
[English Modern]
[German]
[Dutch]
[French]
[Spain & Portugal]
[Pre-Modern American]
[Modern American]
[China, India and Japan]
[Middle East]
[Latin America]
[Africa]
[Colonial and Non-European]
Updated 25 February 2008
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.
- Boone, Marc
- "State power and illicit sexuality: The persecution of sodomy in late medieval Bruges", Journal of Medieval History, 22 (1996): 135-53.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Goodich, Michael
- The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period. Santa Barbara CA and
Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1979.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective.
Fortress Press, 1998
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Norton, Rictor
- "The historical roots of homophobia", in Leyland,
Gay Roots, Vol. 2 (1993), 69-90.
- Raby, Michel J.
- "Le péché 'contre nature' dans la littérature médiévale: deux cas",
Romance Quarterly, 44, 4 (Fall 1997): 215-23.
- 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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