Sexual behaviour was strictly regulated in late medieval and Tudor England.
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Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.
History of Sexuality at the 2017 American Historical Association Meeting
Our list of 2017 AHA panels that are not to be missed
Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes
‘The witch is a witch not only because she magically devours, destroys, or rides wolves, but also because she has sex with the devil.’
Witchcraft Confessions and Sexual Fantasies during the English Civil War
In their confessions at the East Anglian witch trials, accused women combined their understanding of the devil with sexual fantasies.
Maleficent Favourites: Seductive Bewitchment at the English Court
Accusations of witchcraft were often used to explain away transgressive behaviour between kings and favourites.
‘The Inevitable Errors of First Explorations’? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
What qualities have kept Boswell’s “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality” monumental to the field of medieval history?