emerge and the extremities would become paralyzed and eventually rot away. Mortimer claims that lepers would have suffered from alopecia, bodily bleeding, putrefaction of the nose and penis, as well as loss of teeth; considering these symptoms, one must
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From Villainous Letch and Sinful Outcast, to “Especially Beloved of God”
Complicating the Medieval Leper through Gender and Social Status
Christina Welch and Rohan Brown
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 48–60 (13 total)
Whitewashing History
Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
Philip Dwyer
force local men to watch them raping women; the ritual mutilation of victims is carried out by cutting off noses, breasts, penises, and so on; parents are forced to maim or kill their children, to cook and eat them prior to their own execution. 32 These
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 54–65 (12 total)
The Problem of Modern Pederasty in Queer History
A Case Study of Norman Douglas
Rachel Hope Cleves
practices, and chemical stimuli. I dealt with this methodological challenge by noting the physical markers that Douglas used to describe the subjects of his interest. Douglas admired boys in the early stages of sexual maturation, after their penises had
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 47–61 (15 total)
“What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”
Homosexuality, Male Prostitution, and Intergenerational Sex in 1950s Italy
Alessio Ponzio
close to the Largo, in particular, once the lights were out, it “seemed to become the landscape of some bizarre, half-lit dream”: The boy beside one might casually take out his penis and knead it into erection, with an air of its being the most ordinary
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 62–78 (17 total)
Solicitor Brown and His Boy
Love, Sex, and Scandal in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Averill Earls
that evening, though the housekeeper, whom the Gardaí interviewed, did not notice anything “unusual” on the bedsheets when she made up the room. 14 According to Price, in the evenings they would regularly “pull” each other's penises until each
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
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- Pages:
- 79–94 (16 total)
Cross-Generational Abuse
Priests, Parishioners, and the Catholic Church in New Spain
Zeb Tortorici
Rodríguez return to the church that night, with his wife, so the priest could measure the size of his erect penis to determine if the cloth was necessary for coitus. Rodríguez protested, after which the priest summoned him behind the cloisters and touched
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 13–30 (18 total)