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This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that refers to sex between women, it contributes to...

Renaissance Painting and Expressions of Male Intimacy in a Seventeenth-Century Illustration from Mughal India

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Mika Natif

This article explores the artistic relationship between Western European Renaissance art and Mughal painting ca. 1630s at the ateliers in North India. A central theme is the employment of European painterly modes in the Mughal visual tradition that expressed male-male intimacy, carnal desire, and...

Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sarah E. Parker

Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public...

Bestiality and Gluttony in Theory and Practice in the Comedies of Giovan Battista Della Porta

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sergius Kodera

Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan nobleman, scholar/scientist, and writer famed for books on natural magic and physiognomy, expressed quite explicit views on bestiality—that is, on human beings having sex with animals. Della Porta populated his plays with characters who allude...

Sex Acts in La Celestina: An Ars Combinatoria of Desire

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Marlen Bidwell-Steiner

This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish texts: Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499/1507). Highlighting the dynamics of the three sex acts depicted in the plot, it argues that intercourse can be read as a negotiation of the text’s main...

“Or whatever you be”: Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Labour in John Lyly’s Gallathea

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Simone Chess

This article explores sociologist Jane Ward’s gender and sexuality theory: the notion of “gender labour,” in which a cisgender (not crossdressed or trans*) partner participates in co-creating his or her partner’s queer gender. While work on gender labour thus far has focused on contemporary...

Review of The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Christine Fillion

Review of Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Nicholas Overgaard

Review of The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ernst Gerhardt

Review of The Life and Writings of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Margaret E. Boyle

Review of Marie mondialisée. L’Atlas Marianus de Wilhelm Gumppenberg et les topographies sacrées de l’époque moderne

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Marie Barral-Baron

Review of The Poems and Letters of Tullia d’Aragona and Others: A Bilingual Edition

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ann Crabb