Project

Urban discourses on sodomy in the early modern Southern Netherlands (ca. 1400-1650)

Code
3F020314
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Cultural history
    • Early modern history
Keywords
sodomy French Dutch 16th Century 17th Century Middle Ages Comparative Quantitative Surveys Language and text analysis Belgium Western Europe History Gender
 
Project description

This project wants to map the repression of sodomy in the early modern urban context of the Southern Low Countries. This project will use legal and literary sources to analyse both the repression and social perception of sodomy in early modern urban society.