Forbidden love in Istanbul: patterns of male-male sexual relations in the early-modern Mediterranean world
West European visitors to the Ottoman Empire in the early-modern period frequently referred to sodomy. They depicted it as a common practice there, associated particularly with ‘renegades’ (converts to Islam). The report of an investigation into a sexual scandal at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul i...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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