Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Michael Rocke
€ 53.16
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Paperback. In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which the author uses in this portrait, calling into question modern conceptions of sexuality and gender. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which Rocke uses to its fullest in this richly documented portrait. He uncovers a culture in which sexual roles were strictly defined by age, with boys under eighteen the 'passive' participants in sodomy, youths in their twenties the 'active' participant, and men in their thirties marrying women, their days of sexual frivolity over. This richly documented book paints a fascinating picture of a vibrant time and place and calls into question our ... Read more
In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which Rocke uses to its fullest in this richly documented portrait. He uncovers a culture in which sexual roles were strictly defined by age, with boys under eighteen the 'passive' participants in sodomy, youths in their twenties the 'active' participant, and men in their thirties marrying women, their days of sexual frivolity over. This richly documented book paints a fascinating picture of a vibrant time and place and calls into question our ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Studies in the History of Sexuality
Condition
New
Weight
599g
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195122923
SKU
V9780195122923
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michael Rocke
Michael Rocke is the Nicky Mariano Librarian of the Biblioteca Berenson at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence.
Reviews for Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Rocke does a brilliant job of teasing out this wealth of material, and of presenting the complex relationships which underlie the criminal statistics ... this book makes a substantial contribution to the history of homosexuality.
Tim Hitchcock, Urban History
remarkable ... Forbidden Friendships is a study of considerable importance.
Times Literary Supplement
Tim Hitchcock, Urban History
remarkable ... Forbidden Friendships is a study of considerable importance.
Times Literary Supplement