Lesbians in Early Modern Spain

by SherryVelasco (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $146.22

  This in-depth study of female homosexuality in the Spanish Empire for the period from 1500 to 1800 presents a multitude of riveting examples that reveal widespread contemporary interest in women's intimate relations with other women. Sources include literary and historical texts featuring female homoeroticism, tracts on convent life, medical treatises, civil and Inquisitional cases, and dramas.