Plotting Social Hierarchies in the Renaissance - HTAV
Plotting Social Hierarchies in the Renaissance - HTAV
Plotting Social Hierarchies in the Renaissance - HTAV
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Sodomy<br />
• Michael Rocke’s major study of homosexuality and male<br />
sociability <strong>in</strong> Florence: an under-recognised but <strong>in</strong>tegral<br />
aspect of <strong>Renaissance</strong> society and culture.<br />
• In Florence, 2 <strong>in</strong> 3 men <strong>in</strong>crim<strong>in</strong>ated by <strong>the</strong> age of 40.<br />
• Important to note: “homosexual behaviour had little to<br />
do with current notions of sexual orientation or identity,<br />
but was organised around notions of gender and life<br />
stages.”<br />
• Manl<strong>in</strong>ess identified solely with a dom<strong>in</strong>ant role <strong>in</strong> sex.<br />
On <strong>Renaissance</strong> sexualities, see also: Guido Ruggiero,<br />
Judith Brown, Alan Bray, Eve Sedgwick, John Boswell.