Synopsis
The book is a scholarly analysis of what homosexuality meant in England at the end of the Middle Ages to the middle of the 17th century, d the English Renaissance. He sees the book as a continuation of the research of Henry Weeks and Michel Foucault. Chapter 1 attempts to see the past on its own terms. "To grasp where homosexuality was placed in the mental universe of the people who lived in that long past society, its place in their world of myth and symbol. Chapter 2 is an analysis of its place in that society. Chapter 3 "attempts to explain the disparity between those two viewpoints. " [This] is the heart of this book. Chapter 4 compares this with what will emerge later in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Book Description
Bray explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite, and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth century.
About the Author
Alan Bray is an independent scholar living in London. A graduate of the University of Wales, he is a mbember of the Editorial Collective of History Workshop Journal.
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