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Forbidden Friendships; Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
de Rocke, Michael
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- ISBN 10
- 0195122925
- ISBN 13
- 9780195122923
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York Oxford: Oxford University Press 0-19-512292 -5 [0-19-512292 -5] 1996. (Mass market paperback) 371pp. Very good. 8vo. An important book on the history of homosexuality that serves to challenge our modern day concepts of gender and sexual identity. Includes figures and statistical tables. Corners lightly bumped; else is clean and bright..
Sinopsis
"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The AdvocateThe men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432 The Office of the Night wascreated specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but anintegral part of a normal masculine identity...
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- Spafford Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 130747
- Título
- Forbidden Friendships; Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
- Autor
- Rocke, Michael
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0195122925
- ISBN 13
- 9780195122923
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press 0-19-512292 -5
- Lugar de publicación
- New York Oxford
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- February 9, 1998
- Palabras clave
- Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Gender Studies, Renaissance
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