King James VI and I and the History of Homosexuality
Description
James VI and I was the most prominent homosexual figure in the early modern period. Young has amassed the evidence surrounding James and related it to the larger history of homosexuality. The result is a synthesis of old and new history that illuminates Jacobean politics and challenges many current assumptions about effeminacy, manliness, sodomy, sexual constructs and sexual discourse before the eighteenth century.
Keywords
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainSocial ScienceGender StudiesRenaissance
1999Book
Author(s)Michael B. Young
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333633786
LanguageEnglish
