Episode Details

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Books on the queer history of Boston and on the concept of the Boston Marriage in modern psychology
  • Medieval penitential manuals that address same-sex relations
  • Works on sexuality and same-sex relations in medieval Europe
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Caren Werlinger
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • The new and forthcoming fiction segment was added later
• Ask Sappho:
  • Where did I get the music that introduces and closes the podcast?
  • What did people think about queens who had same-sex relations? Did it affect what the common people and the people of the court thought of them?
  • This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
    • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
    • Hutcheson, Gregory S. “Leonor López de Córdoba and the Configuration of Female-Female Desire” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn), Palgrave, New York, 2001.
    • anser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
    • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
    • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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