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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.

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