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1. Record Number: 44384 Author(s): Peter Damian and David Rollo Contributor(s): Title : The Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus) Source: Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian's The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The Plaint of Nature. David Rollo, translator .   Brill, 2022.  Pages 30 - 71. Available with a subscription from Brill: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507326_003 Year of Publication: 2022.

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2. Record Number: 44842 Author(s): Peter Damian Contributor(s): Title : Clerical Sodomy Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 243 - 247. Year of Publication: 2022.

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3. Record Number: 45037 Author(s): Enders, Jody Contributor(s): Title : Immaculate Deception, or, Nuns Behaving Badly [Farce nouvelle à cinq parsonnages] (Soeur Fessue) (RLV, #38;) Source: Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English.   Edited by Jody Enders, ed. and trans .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.  Pages 316 - 344. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv25j12t8.19 Year of Publication: 2022.

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4. Record Number: 44907 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 266 - 268. Year of Publication: 2020.

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5. Record Number: 44908 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Testimony of Rolandina Roncaglia [] Source: Year of Publication: 2020.

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6. Record Number: 44909 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Testimony of Rolandina Roncaglia Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 269 - 270. Year of Publication: 2020.

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7. Record Number: 12506 Author(s): Lansing, Carol. Contributor(s): Title : Donna con Donna?: A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy [The author presents a case in Bologna in which a woman was accused of sodomy with other women. Testimony by one witness is also preserved, suggesting that he was not scandalized to hear that a woman was attracted to another woman. The appendix presents Latin texts of the initial notification to the court and the deposition of the witness Ugolino Martini. Lansing suggests that the accuser, Guilelmo, pursued Guericia in court and most probably forced her to flee Bologna. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.   Edited by Philip M. Soergel Studies in medieval and renaissance history, 3rd ser., 2.   AMS Press, 2005.  Pages 109 - 122. Also part of the series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Third Series 2 (Old Series 27, New Series 17) (2005). Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Year of Publication: 2005.

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8. Record Number: 13779 Author(s): Ferzoco, George. Contributor(s): Title : The Massa Marittima Mural [The Massa Marittima mural, discovered in 2000 on the site of a public fountain, has been interpreted, because of the presence of imperial eagles, as a piece of pro-Empire Ghibelline art. Yet the presence of a woman being sodomized beneath an eagle sugges Source: Il murale di Massa Marittina. George Ferzoco Toscana Studies .  2004.  Pages 71 - 92. [In Italian on pp.29-50] Year of Publication: 2004.

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9. Record Number: 10847 Author(s): Burgwinkle, William. Contributor(s): Title : Visible and Invisible Bodies and Subjects in Peter Damian Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.   Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 47 - 62. Year of Publication: 2004.

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10. Record Number: 9340 Author(s): Broedel, Hans Peter. Contributor(s): Title : To Preserve the Manly Form from So Vile a Crime: Ecclesiastical Anti-Sodomitic Rhetoric and the Gendering of Witchcraft in the "Malleus Maleficarum" [Broedel argues that Heinrich Krämer, the author, with the help of Jacob Sprenger, of the "Malleus maleficarum," adopted the language and critiques of sodomy to describe witchcraft, thus making it a crime of deviant sexuality. Since women were naturally predisposed to witchcraft due to weaknesses in their nature, they were lured into sexual sins with demons. Men who were enchanted by witches lost their potency or became emasculated. Using these kinds of arguments, Krämer created a witch that was much more threatening than in other contemporary tracts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 136-148. Link Info Year of Publication: 2002.

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11. Record Number: 6205 Author(s): Burgwinkle, Bill. Contributor(s): Title : Visible and Invisible Selves in Peter Damian Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. Year of Publication: 2002.

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12. Record Number: 6206 Author(s): Cadden, Joan. Contributor(s): Title : Are Sodomites Feminine? A View from Natural Philosophy Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. Year of Publication: 2002.

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13. Record Number: 6231 Author(s): Sturges, Robert S. Contributor(s): Title : Sodomy and Sense: Bodily (In)Visibility in the Gast of Gy Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. Year of Publication: 2002.

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14. Record Number: 9335 Author(s): Hafner, Susanne. Contributor(s): Title : Coward, Traitor, Landless Trojan: Æneas and the Politics of Sodomy [The author argues that the complaints against Æneas, as presented by the queen to her daughter Lavinia, center on the political rather than the sexual aspects of his preferences for men. Furthermore since Æneas abandoned Dido and refused to even leave her pregnant with his baby, the queen worries that her daughter will not have a child and the kingdom no future ruler. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 61-69. Link Info Year of Publication: 2002.

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15. Record Number: 6043 Author(s): Patterson, Lee. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Psyche and Clio in Medieval Literary Studies [the author argues that psycholanalytic theory has been abandoned by psychology and medicine while at the same time medieval literary historians have adopted it with great enthusiasm; the author takes the "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale" as a case study and suggests that the castration and homosexuality frequently seen as the key elements in the Pardoner's character were intended by Chaucer to be read metaphorically as indications of the Pardoner's barrenness and false religious beliefs]. Source: Speculum , 76., 3 (July 2001):  Pages 638 - 680. Year of Publication: 2001.

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16. Record Number: 4412 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in "Le Prestre et le Chevalier" [The author briefly analyzes a fabliau in which a knight seeks revenge against a greedy priest by having sex with both the priest's niece and his mistress; furthermore the knight threatens to sodomize the priest until the priest pays him a large sum]. Source: French Forum , 25., 2 (May 2000):  Pages 137 - 144. Year of Publication: 2000.

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17. Record Number: 10109 Author(s): Nugent, Christopher G. Contributor(s): Title : Violence and Vernacularity: The Sodom Story in Anglo-Saxon England [Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 14-16, 1999, Session 30: "Queer Theory and Medieval Studies: Past, Present, Future."] Source: Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Year of Publication: 2000.

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18. Record Number: 3934 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Medieval Prostitution and the Case of a (Mistaken?) Sexual Identity [The author questions the conclusions of Ruth Karras in "Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe," in particular that prostitutes had a sexual identity]. Source: Journal of Women's History (Full Text via Project Muse) 11, 2 (Summer 1999): 178-185. Link Info Year of Publication: 1999.

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19. Record Number: 4754 Author(s): Watt, Diane. Contributor(s): Title : Literary Geneaology, Virile Rhetoric, and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" ["In this article, my primary concern will be with the way in which Gower's construction of rhetoric can be seen to be both gendered and sexualized, especially when read alongside other classical and medieval discussions of the subject." page 392]. Source: Philological Quarterly , 78., 4 (Fall 1999):  Pages 389 - 415. Year of Publication: 1999.

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20. Record Number: 5554 Author(s): Zanoboni, Maria Paola Contributor(s): Title : O Ribaldo prevosto... Pedofilia nella Milano Quattrocentesca [evidence for pedophilia in the Middle Ages is scarce before the fifteenth century; the evidence from Milan is scattered but the surviving material includes complaints about violent assaults on children, some done by clerics; in an appendix the author presents the Latin text of documents from a notary in 1469 dealing with apparent cases of pedophilia]. Source: Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124., ( 1998- 1999):  Pages 535 - 544. Year of Publication: 1998- 1999.

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21. Record Number: 2427 Author(s): Epp, Garrett P.J. Contributor(s): Title : The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and "Mankind" Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997. Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124., ( 1998- 1999):  Pages 303 - 320. Year of Publication: 1997.

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22. Record Number: 2318 Author(s): Puff, Helmut. Contributor(s): Title : Localizing Sodomy: the "Priest and Sodomite" in Pre-Reformation Germany and Switzerland [case studies of two priests accused of sodomy; conflict ensued between secular authorities who favored public, harsh punishments and Church authorities who were more lenient and wanted the cases kept secret]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 8., 2 (October 1997):  Pages 165 - 195. Year of Publication: 1997.

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23. Record Number: 1420 Author(s): Johansson, Warren and William A. Percy Contributor(s): Title : Homosexuality [emphasis on the Church's role in condemning and criminalizing homosexuality]. Source: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.   Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage .   Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Journal of the History of Sexuality , 8., 2 (October 1997):  Pages 155 - 189. Year of Publication: 1996.

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24. Record Number: 4625 Author(s): Ferroul, Yves. Contributor(s): Title : Le Livre de Gomorrhe [The author questions Peter Damian's arguments against homosexuality and other sex acts "against nature;" the author analyzes three kinds of arguments: based on evidence, on Biblical scripture, and on rhetorical figures]. Source: Sex, Love and Marriage in Medieval Literature and Reality: Thematische Beiträge im Rahmen des 31th [sic] International Congress on Medieval Studies an der Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo-USA) 8.-12. Mai 1996.   Edited by Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok WODAN Bd. 69. Serie 3 Tagungsbände und Sammelschriften Actes de Colloques et Ouvrages Collectifs, 40.   Reineke-Verlag, 1996. Journal of the History of Sexuality , 7., 2 (Oct. 1996):  Pages 21 - 31. Year of Publication: 1996.

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25. Record Number: 1113 Author(s): Frantzen, Allen J. Contributor(s): Title : The Disclosure of Sodomy in "Cleanness" Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 111, 3 (May 1996): 451-464. Link Info Year of Publication: 1996.

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26. Record Number: 626 Author(s): Boone, Marc. Contributor(s): Title : State Power and Illicit Sexuality: The Persecution of Sodomy in Late Medieval Bruges Source: Journal of Medieval History , 22., 2 (June 1996):  Pages 135 - 153. Year of Publication: 1996.

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27. Record Number: 705 Author(s): Gilmour- Bryson, Anne. Contributor(s): Title : Sodomy and the Knights Templar [examines the testimony of Templars recorded during Inquisition trials]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 7., 2 (Oct. 1996):  Pages 151 - 183. Year of Publication: 1996.

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28. Record Number: 8468 Author(s): Carrai, Stefano and Giorgio Inglese Contributor(s): Title : Epigrammi inediti del Poliziano e del Naldi [A manuscript in Poppi contains an exchange of epigrams between Angelo Poliziano, a leading humanist, and the coutesan Ginevra. He accused her of greed, and she accused him of sodomy and pedophilia. Seven of their Latin epigrams are appended to the article. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Rinascimento , 33., ( 1993):  Pages 111 - 123. Year of Publication: 1993.

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29. Record Number: 11047 Author(s): Pequigney, Joseph. Contributor(s): Title : Sodomy in Dante's "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" [The author analyzes the "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" to show that Dante's treatment of homosexuality was remarkably tolerant for its time, and that it may even have allowed a salvific function for homoerotic love. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Representations (Full Text via JSTOR) 36 (Autumn 1991): 22-42. Link Info Year of Publication: 1991.

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30. Record Number: 11784 Author(s): Brundage, James A. Contributor(s): Title : The Politics of Sodomy: Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311) [The essay argues that litigation records in the case of Pons Hugh IV demonstrate the way accusations of sodomy could have a political use. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Joyce E. Salisbury .   Garland Publishing, 1991.  Pages 239 - 246. Year of Publication: 1991.

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31. Record Number: 32649 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Goldsmith in His Shop Source: Year of Publication:

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32. Record Number: 43307 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Transgressive bodily desires (Bible Moralisée, Codex Vindobonensis 2554) Source: Year of Publication:

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