sexuality, identity, and community in early modern Europe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ferguson, Gary
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 1C 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- homoseksualiteit, LHBT, homohuwelijken, identiteit, rechtspraak, renaissance
- Description
- This book is about a same-sex wedding ceremony in sixteenth-century Rome. The case involved a group of mostly Spanish and Portuguese men, arrested and executed in Rome in 1578, said to have performed same-sex wedding ceremonies in one of the city's major churches. We know about the incident from a number of sources, including the travel journal of the French essayist Michel de Montaigne. Ferguson brings the story to life in detail. He reveals not only the names of the men but also where they lived, how they were employed, and who their friends were. In particular, he unearths a surprising amount of detail about the men’s sex lives, and how others responded to this information, which allows him to explore attitudes toward marriage, sex, and gender at the time.