29 research outputs found
Die Entstehung der Homo- und der Heterosexuellen: Randolph Trumbach im GesprÀch mit Gert Hekma und Harry Oosterhuis
Eileen Spring. Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 1993. Pp. ix, 199. $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-2110-1.
Henry French and Mark Rothery. Man's Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660â1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 292. $125.00.
Sodomites in the pillory in eighteenth-century London
The arrival of the eighteenth century brought with it new legal attention to sodomitical behaviour. Nowhere was this more notorious and public than in the punishment of those offences in the pillory. This paper argues that the pillory was a productive space for the understanding of sodomy in this period, a place where the logic and practice of that particular punishment intersected with a new and emerging conceptualization of masculinity and erotic desire between men. The intersection between these discourses had a dynamic function: far from merely reflecting public attitudes prevalent elsewhere, the practices of the pillory helped to create the new attitudinal structure to sodomitical behaviour