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available at selected retailers or online at Karcha. Karcha. UK. In early modern Europe, desire was policed.

Same sex desire, or at least acting on it, was especially forbidden.

Many of the cases of sex between men we only know of because of their appearance in criminal cases cases and many of the men involved suffered

excruciating execution as punishment for their so-called crimes. But how does the evidence we have allow us to access the attitudes and behavior of people

experiencing same-sex desire and the response of their society to them.

As we'll learn today, the evidence does not suggest that we can easily find a straightforward match for modern concepts of homosexuality in the past,

which is one reason why in the interests of

accuracy and not judgment historians often use the contemporary terms sodomy and

sodomite as descriptors. On the basis of extensive Europe-wide research

today's guest demonstrates in fact that the practice of sexuality not only

varies across time but in early modern Europe it varied

across geography.

My guest has published a new landmark study on male male sexual relations between 1400 and 1750.

He is Sir Noel Malcolm, senior research fellow at All Souls College Oxford.

He was formerly a fellow at Gondvlin Keys in Cambridge,

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