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Article: Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Cristian Berco. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 201 pp. index, tbls. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9139-0.
In this monograph, Cristian Berco explores prosecutions for sodomy conducted by the Spanish Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, in the hopes of illuminating connections between sexual behavior and social and ethnic relations in early modern Spain. He is much less interested in questions of identity, much more so in behavior: while he occasionally offers comments on the possibility of a homosexual subculture in the late sixteenth and seventeenth ...