In non-Pandemic times this weekend would have been seen pride parades in many places in the world. The history of pride, being largely a 20th and 21th century thing is outside the SCA period of interest. LGBTQ wasn’t unheard of in the middle ages , so we’d like to highlight a class taught by one of our participants, Aleydis van Vilvoorde, on same sex sexuality in the middle ages.
If you want to know more check out Aleydis’ references:
- Boswell, James: “Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe”. New York, NY: Villard Books, 1994
- Brown, Judith: “Immodest Acts - The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy”, New York: Oxford UP, 1986
- Brundage, James: “Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe”, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1987
- Bullough, V Brundage, J ed. ”Handbook of Medieval Sexuality”, Abingdon: Routledge Taylor &Francis Group, 1996
- Burger, Glenn and Steven Kruger, eds. “Queering the Middle Ages”. The University of Minnesota, 2001
- Halsall, Paul: “The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages” https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/gaymidages.asp (retrieved 2020-06-03) Check the Bibliography! It’s excellent.
- Keene, Bryan C and Rheagan Martin: “Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity” in “The Iris – Behind the scenes at the Getty”, https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/coming-out-queer-erasure-and-censorship-from-the-middle-ages-to-modernity/ (retrieved 2020-06-03) Again: check the bibliography!
- L’Estrange, Elizabeth, and Alison Moore, eds. “Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530”. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2011
- Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz, eds. “Constructing Medieval Sexuality, Medieval Cultures, vol. 11”. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997
- Mazo Karras, Ruth: “Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others”. London: Routledge, 2005.
- Mills, Robert: “Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Rocke, Michael: “Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence”, Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Tideswell, Catherine: “How far did medieval society recognise lesbianism in this period?” at medievalist.net https://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/gender-sexuality-europe-1200-1500-far-medieval-society-recognise-lesbianism-period/ (retrieved 2020-06-03)