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104 Queer Masculinities, 1550–1800<br />

Robert P. Petersen (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985) 41–55, here 49;<br />

first published as: ‘La Sodomie à l’époque moderne en Suisse romande,’ in<br />

Annales esc. 29 (1974): 1023–33.<br />

24 Stefanie Krings, ‘Sodomie am Bodensee: Vom gesellschaftlichen Umgang<br />

mit sexueller Abartigkeit in spätem Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit auf<br />

St. Galler Quellengrundlage’, in Schriften des Vereins für Geschichte des<br />

Bodensees und seiner Umgebung 113 (1995): 1–45.<br />

25 William G. Naphy, ‘Sodomy in Early Modern Geneva: Various Definitions,<br />

Diverse Verdicts’, in Sodomy in Early Modern Europe, ed. Tom Betteridge<br />

(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002) 94–111; id., Plagues,<br />

Poisons, and Potions: Plague Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, c.<br />

1530–1640 (forthcoming).<br />

26 See, however, Helmut Puff ‘Männergeschichten / Frauengeschichten: Über<br />

den Nutzen einer Geschichte der Homosexualitäten’, in Geschlechtergeschichte<br />

und Allgemeine Geschichte, ed. Hans Medick, Anne-Charlotte Trepp<br />

(Göttingen: Wallstein, 1998) 165–9. On Theodor de Bèze, see Winfried<br />

Schleiner, ‘“That Matter Which Ought Not To Be Heard Of”: Homophobic<br />

Slurs in Renaissance Cultural Politics,’ in Journal of Homosexuality 26 (1994):<br />

41–75.<br />

27 Most of the existing literature is focused on the late medieval period when<br />

urban courts started to prosecute same-sex sexual relations. Hans-Rudolf<br />

Hagemann, Basler Rechtsleben im Mittelalter, 2 vols. (Basel: Helbing &<br />

Lichtenhahn, 1981/1987); Helmut Puff and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin,<br />

‘Quellen zur Homosexualität im Mittelalter: Ein Basler Projekt’, in Forum<br />

Homosexualität und Literatur 13 (1991): 119–24; Wolfram Schneider-Lastin<br />

and Helmut Puff, ‘“Vnd solt man alle die so das tuend verbrennen, es<br />

bliben nit funffzig mannen jn Basel”: Homosexualität in der deutschen<br />

Schweiz im Spätmittelalter’, in Lust, Angst und Provokation: Homosexualität in<br />

der Gesellschaft, ed. H. Puff (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993)<br />

79–103; Andreas Niederhäuser, Homosexuelle Lebenswelten im Spätmittelalter<br />

(Zurich: Beiträge der Koordinationsstelle Homosexualität und Wissenschaft,<br />

1994); Helmut Puff, ‘Localizing Sodomy: The “Priest and Sodomite” in Pre-<br />

Reformation Germany and Switzerland’, in Journal of the History of Sexuality<br />

8 (1997): 165–95; id., ‘Überlegungen zu einer Rhetorik der “unsprechlichen<br />

Sünde”: Ein Basler Verhörprotokoll aus dem Jahr 1416’, in Österreichische<br />

Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 9 (1998): 342–57.<br />

28 Only in 1648 did Switzerland achieve recognition of its political independence<br />

from the Holy Roman Empire, though de facto the Confederacy had<br />

acted independently since the fifteenth century.<br />

29 Cf. Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in<br />

Renaissance Florence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).<br />

30 In 1626, Hans Walther von Castanea, son of a wealthy merchant, was urged<br />

by his kin to flee the city in order to avoid being prosecuted for sodomy<br />

and other charges. Urban authorities took Castanea’s escape for a confession<br />

of guilt and sentenced him to death in absentia. Yet the charges were<br />

so vague that they seem to have been fabricated. The whole scandal was<br />

related to conflicts over the inheritance of Hans Georg von Castanea and<br />

his business. See Staatsarchiv Luzern (STALU), Archiv 1, Personalien, AKT<br />

113/302; Kurt Messmer, Peter Hoppe, Luzerner Patriziat: Sozial- und

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