Homosexuality in Renaissance England

The Publisher Says: Bray explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite, and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth century.

My Review: I got my copy

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of this in London in the earlyish 1980s; I've managed to hold onto it for sneaking up on forty years! There is a Columbia University Press edition of the book in paperback...it's hugely expensive no matter whose prices you pay, but it is absolutely worth the money.

There is an entire series of romance novels, of varying levels of steam, in these dry pages. It is fascinating as history and supercalafragilisticexpialadocious as inspiration. Strongly recommended!

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