Publication

2007-02-28 - University of Toronto Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCHQ76.2.S7 B47 2007

Description

"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 material. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status aims to fill this gap by comprehensively examining the Aragonese Inquisition's sodomy trials." "Using court records, Cristian Berco provides an analysis of male sexuality and its connection to public social structures and processes. His study illustrates how male homosexual behaviour existed within a widespread gendered system that extolled the penetrative act as the masculine pursuit of an emasculated passive partner."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spains Golden AgeHardcoverUniversity of Toronto Press2007-02-28

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