The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates
early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes
they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of
those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750,
long before the term homosexuality was coined and accrued its
current range of cultural meanings.
This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific
explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviors are not a
modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European
thought. The sciences of antiquity had posited various types of
same-sexual affinities rooted in singular natures. These concepts
were renewed, elaborated, and reassessed from the late medieval
scientific revival to the early Enlightenment. The deviance of such
persons was interpreted as outwardly inscribed upon their bodies,
documented in treatises and case studies. It was attributed to
diverse inborn causes such as distinctive anatomies or
physiologies, and embryological, astrological, or temperamental
factors.
This original book freshly illuminates many of the questions
that are current today about the nature of homosexual activity and
reveals how the early modern period and its scientific
interpretations of same-sex relationships are fundamental to
understanding the conceptual development of contemporary
sexuality.
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