An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani

By Ula Klein Early Modern

What does the case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani reveal about gender identity and sexual desire in the Eighteenth Century?

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

By Christine Varnado Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.

The Beauty and the Terror

By Catherine Fletcher Author Interviews, Early Modern

The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.

Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France

By Meghan Roberts Early Modern

How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister

‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books

By Lee Raye Early Modern

Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.

Homosensuality and the early modern Anglo-Ottoman encounter

By Nailya Shamgunova Early Modern

Sensationalised sexual depravity of the Ottomans was a popular trope in early modern European discourses on the Turks.