Tudor Lesbians

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Throughout history, it's mostly been queer men who were persecuted under the historical sodomy laws, but the Tudor period saw a spike in women being tried under it.

Why was this? And why was it mostly happening in what is modern day Belgium and Netherlands?

Joining Kate today is historian Jonas Roelens, who specialises in sexuality in the early modern period, to explore the unique things that were happening in Europe during this time that gave rise to such persecutions.

His book, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700), can be found here.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hello my lovely betrixers it's me Kate Lester how are you doing you settled in
0:05.6	you sitting comfortable are you ready for us to begin well so am I but before we can
0:11.0	I think you know what's coming that's right it's the fair dues warning this is an adult
0:15.2	podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adult-ty way covering
0:19.1	a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too if If you're not an adult, this is your
0:24.8	warning to get out now while you still can and you get us all in trouble.
0:29.2	And for the adults remaining, I wonder if before we could go any further if I could beg just the teeniest,
0:35.0	tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, tiniest, babyest favor from you? Could you possibly vote for us in the
0:40.0	listener's Choice Awards at this year's Podcast Awards.
0:43.6	You can do that by going to the website
0:45.9	W.W. British Podcast Awards.
0:48.3	dot-C.com forward slash voting
0:50.3	and clicking on betwixt the sheets.
0:52.6	If you do it, I think that we could win it this year.
0:55.3	I think that we could.
0:56.8	It's a team effort, guys.
0:58.8	Let's do it.
1:00.2	Right, on with a show. Well, welcome to 17th century Bruges in what at the time is called the Southern Low
1:21.4	countries, a place that has also been referred to as the capital of sodomy.
1:28.0	Hmm, I don't think that they used that in the tourist advertisements, do they? Sodomy was a term that was first used to criminalise any sex act that wasn't a married man and a woman having
1:39.2	sex for making babies so well all of the fun stuff then I guess. Here on a farm there are two
1:46.8	women maken and magdalena and they're supposed to be working however there is more play than work taking place. They are having
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