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  1. Introduction

    Introduction

    Article | Contributor(s): Ian Frederick Moulton

  2. On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

    On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

    Article | Contributor(s): Marc D. Schachter

    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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

  4. Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine

    Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

  6. Sex Acts in La Celestina: An Ars Combinatoria of Desire

    Sex Acts in La Celestina: An Ars Combinatoria of Desire

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Christine Fillion

  9. Review of Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story

    Review of Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story

    Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Overgaard

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Ernst Gerhardt

  11. Review of The Life and Writings of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

    Review of The Life and Writings of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

    Review | Contributor(s): Margaret E. Boyle

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Ann Crabb

  14. Review of Michelangelo and the English Martyrs

    Review of Michelangelo and the English Martyrs

    Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Rolfe Prodan

  15. Review of The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2204 to 2356: August 1529–July 1530

    Review of The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2204 to 2356: August 1529–July 1530

    Review | Contributor(s): Mark Crane

  16. Review of Tales and Trials of Love: A Bilingual Edition and Study

    Review of Tales and Trials of Love: A Bilingual Edition and Study

    Review | Contributor(s): Brenda M. Hosington

  17. Review of Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England

    Review of Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England

    Review | Contributor(s): Vin Nardizzi

  18. Review of The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639–1660

    Review of The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639–1660

    Review | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

  19. Review of Shakespeare and Abraham

    Review of Shakespeare and Abraham

    Review | Contributor(s): Mauricio Martinez

  20. Review of Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de’ Medici and Renaissance Florence

    Review of Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de’ Medici and Renaissance Florence

    Review | Contributor(s): Colin Rose

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