C: History of Sexuality & Homosexuality

Barber, Malcolm, The Trial of the Templars, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978)
Beidler, Peter G. Masculinities in Chaucer : approaches to maleness in the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde Cambridge ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 1998.
Bennett, Judith, and Froide, Single Women in the European Past, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998?
Benson, J., "Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Courtly Love". in Francis Xavier Newman, ed., The Meaning of Courtly Love, (Albany NY:, 1969), 19-42
Beriac, F., "La Persecution des Lepreux dans la France Meridionale", Le Moyen Age 93:2 (1987), pp. 203-222
Discusses collective aggresiveness against the `other'.
Biddick, Kathleen. The shock of medievalism. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998.
Biller, P.A., "Birth Control, the Medieval West", Past and Present 94 (1982), pp. 3-26
Bitel, Lisa M. "`Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights': Stories of Procreation from Early Ireland." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 181- 202.
Brooke, Christopher, The Medieval Idea of Marriage, (New York: Oxford UP, 1989)
Brown, Judith, "Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Brucker, Gene, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, (Berkeley & Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1986)
Author calls this microhistory. It is the account of a 1455 law case on the clandestine marriage of a nobleman and poorer woman. It shows the sort of evidence available in court records for sexual history.
Brundage, James, "Let Me Count the Ways: Canonists and Theologians Contemplate Coital Positions", Journal of Medieval History 10:2 (1984), pp. 81-93
Brundage, James, "Politics of Sodomy", (forthcoming, promised in his Law, Sex p. 473, n.288)
Bullough, Vern L. and James A. Brundage. Handbook of medieval sexuality. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Burgwinkle, William E. Love for sale : materialist readings of the troubadour razo corpus . New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
Camille, Michael, The Medieval Art of Love, pub?: H. Abrams, 1998 -Great, and somewhat unexpected, illustrations
Cadden, Joan, "Medieval Scientific and Medical Views of Sexuality: Questions of Propriety", Medeavilia et Humanistica 14 (1986), pp. 157-171
Clark, Elizabeth A. "Antifamilial Tendencies in Ancient Christianity." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:3 (1995): 356-80.
Cleugh, James, Love Locked Out: An Examination of Sexuality during the Middle Ages, (New York: Crown, 1963)
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Bonnie Wheeler. Eds. Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
Covey, Herbert C, "Perceptions and Attitudes toward Sexuality of the Elderly during the Middle Ages", Gerontologist Feb 1989; 29:1 p. 93-100
Abstract from electronic database :The proposals that thoughts on the ages of life excluded the elderly from having normal sex lives and that the church of the Middle Ages defined sexual behavior by the elderly as immoral are examined.
Espejo Muriel, Carlos. El deseo negado : aspectos de la problematica homosexual en la vida monastica (siglos III-VI d.C.), (Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1991)
Derouet-Besson, Marie-Claude, "`Inter dous scopulas' Hypothese sur la place de la sexualite dans les models de la representations du monde du XI siecle", Annales 36:5 (1981), pp. 922-945
Dinzebacher, P., "Pour un histoire de l'amour au Moyen Age", Moyen Age 93:2 (1987(, pp. 223-240
Epstein, L.M., Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism, (New York: 1967)
Flandrin, J.L., "Contraception, Mariage et Relations Amoureuses dans l'Occident Chretien", Annales ESC 56 (1969), pp. 1370-1390
Flandrin, J.L., "Marriage tardif et vie sexualle: Discussions et hypotheses de recherche", Annales ESC 59 (1972), pp. 131178
Flandrin, J.L., "Repression and Change in the Sexual Life of Young People in Medieval and Early Modern Times", Journal of Family History 2 (1977) Did young people masturbate?
Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, eds. The Pleasures of History: Reading Premodern Sexualities, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Gilmour-Bryon, Anne. "Sodomy and the Knights Templar." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:2 (1996): 151-183.
Goodich, Michael, The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Late Medieval Period, (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 1979)
Much criticised book that attempts an overview. It actually does quite a good job, and has an extensive bibliography and a 30-page translation/extract from inquisition records of Jacques Fournier in the 13th century. {Reviews - AHR 1980, p.375; Speculum (1980), pp. 121-122; Journal of Homosexuality 6:1/2 (2 separate reviews)}
Gold, Barbara K., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter. Eds. Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts : the Latin tradition Albany: State University of New York Press, c1997.
Goodich, Michael. "Sexuality, Family, and the Supernatural in the Fourteenth Century." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:4 (1994): 493-516.
Harrison, Nonna Verna, The Feminine Man in Late Antique Ascetic Piety, [At Columbia U]
Hernandez, Lodovico (pseud. of Fernand Fleuret & Louis Perceau), Les Proces de Sodomie aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe Siecle, (Paris: 1920)
Jeay, Madeleine, "Sur quelque coutumes sexuelles du moyen age", in L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut d"Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, ed. Roy, Bruno, (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Karras, Ruth Mazo. "Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:1 (1990): 3-32.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, and David L. Boyd, "Ut cum muliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Medieval London,", in The Pleasures of History: Reading Premodern Sexualities, eds. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
Karras, Ruth Mazo. Common women : prostitution and sexuality in Medieval England, New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Keiser, Elizabeth B. Courtly desire and medieval homophobia : the legitimation of sexual pleasure in cleanness and its contexts. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1997.
Kuster, Harvey J., "Gelijkgeslachtelijke liefde in de middeleeuwen", Spiegel Historiael 10 (1975), pp 232-237
Kuster, Harvey J., "L'Amour physique unisexuel au moyen age", Arcadie, (Paris: 1976), pp. 665-670
Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoerotik in de middeleewse poezia", Maatstaf 24 (1976), pp. 40-48
Kuster, Harvey J., Over Homoseksualiteit in Middeleeuws West-Europa, (Utrecht: Univ. of Utrecht Dissertation, 1977)
Kuster, Harvey J., "Homoseksualiteit in de middeleeuwen", Huisarts en Praktijk, (Utrecht: 1980), pp. 13-16
Kuster, Harvey & Raymond J. Cormier, "Old Views and New Trends: Observations on the Problem of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages", Studii Medievali 25:2 (1985) Overview of recent work, based on Boswell and Kuster's dissertation.
Lea, H.C., History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church 3rd ed., (London: 1907)
Lees, Clare A., ed, with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara. Medieval masculinities: regarding men in the Middle Ages. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
Legman, Gershon, The Guilt of the Templars, (New York: Basic Books, 1966)
Argues the Templars were a homosexual warrior order, that their seal indicates pederasty, and that homosexual rape was part of the intuition. All open to question.
Lemay, Helen Rodnite, "Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writing", in Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage, Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, New Concepts in Human Sexuality Series, (Prometheus Books, 1982)
Discusses scientific writing on homosexuality on pp. 194-197. She can only find two short discussions, by William of Saliceto and Michael Scot.
Lentzen-Bonn, R., "Altercatio Ganimedis en Helene", Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch 8 (1972), pp 161-187
Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz. eds. Constructing medieval sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Moore, R.I., The Formation of a Persecuting Society, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987)
Briefly discusses homosexuality, but sets it in the wider context of Jews, lepers, heretics and other persecuted groups.
Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Eds. Desire and discipline : sex and sexuality in the premodern West. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Murray, Stephen & Kent Gerard, "Renaissance Sodomite Subcultures?", in Among Men, Among Women: Sociological and Historical Recognition of Homosocial Arrangements, (Amsterdam: 1983)
Nederman, Cary J., and Jacqui True. "The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hemaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 497-517.
Noordam, D. J., .Riskante relaties : vijf eeuwen homoseksualiteit in Nederland, 1233-1733, (Hilversum : Verloren, 1995)
Norton, Rictor, "Ganymede in Renaissance Literature", Gay Sunshine 19 (Fall, 1973), p. 16
Richards, Jeffrey, Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages, (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Roby, D., "Early Medieval Attitudes toward Homosexuality", Gai Saber 1 (1977), pp. 67-71
Rosner, Fred, Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, (New York: Ktav, 1984)
Roy, Bruno, ed., L'Erotisme au Moyen Age: Etudes presentees au IIe Colloque de l'Institut d"Etudes Medievales, 3-4 Avril 1976, (Montreal: Ed. Aurore, 1977)
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice, (New York: Oxford UP, 1985)
See pp 109-45 on sodomy.
Saslow, James M., Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1986)
Reviews
Source 6:3 (1987), pp. 34-35;
Art Bulletin 69:4 (1987), pp. 653-57;
AHR 93:1 (1988), p.185}
Hope, Charles, "Jupiter's Boy", New York Review of Books May 29, 1986; 33:9 p. 7-10
Saslow, James M.,, "Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, Artistic Expression" in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From History, New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983), 90-105
Schwartz, Jerome, "Aspects of Androgny in the Renaissance", in Human Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead, (Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh Publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1978), pp. 121-131
Small, R.C., "Is it True about the Templars", New York Review of Books 8, (Feb 23, 1967), pp. 14-15
Spreitzer, Brigitte, Die stumme Sunde : Homosexualitat im Mittelalter : mit einem Textanhang, (Goppingen : Kummerle, 1988)
Stehling, Thomas, "To Love a Medieval Boy", Journal of Homosexuality 8 (1983), pp. 151-170
Stiller, Richard, "The Homosexual Crusader's The Templars ", Sexology 34 (Dec, 1967), pp. 305-307
Townsend, David and Andrew Taylor. Eds. The tongue of the fathers : gender and ideology in the twelfth-century Latin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Weeks, Jeffrey, "In days of yore when knights were gay?", History Today 30 (July, 1980), p. 49