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    Gay history

    Apr 03, 2024 3 minutes

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE MALE-MALE SEXUAL RELATIONS, 1400-1750

    NOEL MALCOLM

    OUP, 608pp, £25

    Historians of sex between men face an enormous challenge, wrote Catherine Fletcher in History Today, because ‘so many sources derive either from the prosecution of illegal acts, or from literary texts that were by necessity often coded.

    ‘One of the most thoughtprovoking books I have read in some time, is an ambitious comparative study of sex between men in the Mediterranean and northern Europe. Its argument unfolds in a very

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