Bibliography on sexuality in Old English

John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in

Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth
Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
John Boswell, ‘Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories’, in Hidden from
History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin Duberman, Martha
Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr. London: Meridian, 1989, pp. 17-36.

Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds, Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.

New York: Garland, 1996.

Joan Cadden, Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and
Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Anthony Davies, ‘Sexual Behaviour in Anglo-Saxon England’, in This Noble Craft,

ed Erik Kooper. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991, pp. 83-105; idem, ‘The Sexual
Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons’, in A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule
Mertens-Fonck, ed. Juliette Dor. Liège: Université de Liège, 1992, pp. 80-102.

*Allen Frantzen, Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in
America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Allen Frantzen, ‘Between the Lines: Queer Theory, the History of Homosexuality,
and Anglo-Saxon Penitentials,’ Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26
(1996), 255-96, and ‘When Women Aren’t Enough,’ Speculum 68 (1993), 445-71.

R. D. Fulk, ‘Male Homoeroticism in the Old English Canons of Theodore,’ in Carol

Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston, eds, Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon
England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder. MRTS 277. Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004, pp. 1-34.

Malcolm Godden, ‘The Trouble with Sodom: Literary Responses to Biblical

Sexuality,’ Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 77 (1995),
97-119.

David Halperin, How to do the history of homosexuality. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2002.

C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensitivity. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Ruth Mazo Karras, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York:
Routledge, 2005.

Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone
Books, 2003.
Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard:
Harvard University Press, 1990.
Clare A. Lees, ‘Engendering Religious Desire: Sex, Knowledge, and Christian
Identity in Anglo-Saxon England,’ Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27
(1997), 17-45.

*Hugh Magennis, ‘ “No Sex Please, We’re Anglo-Saxons”? Attitudes to Sexuality in

Old English Prose and Poetry,’ Leeds Studies in English 26 (1995), 1-27.

John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer, Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A

Translation of the Principal Libri Poenitentiales and selections from related
documents. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

*Carol Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston, eds, Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon
England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder. MRTS 277. Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.

*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial
Desire. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985 – Introduction (on ‘homosocial
desire’.)

Works on sexuality in the later period or on the Continent

Clare A. Lees, ed., Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds, Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.
New York: Garland, 1997.
Karma Lochrie et al, eds, Constructing Medieval Sexuality. Minnesota: University of
Minnesota Press, 1997.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre-and Post
Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensitivity. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Jacqueline Murray, ed., Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the
Medieval West. New York: Garland, 1999.
Glenn Burgess and Steven F. Kruger, eds, Queering the Middle Ages. Minnesota:
University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Richard Zeikowitz, Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex
Desire in the Fourteenth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Ruth Mazo Karras, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York:
Routledge, 2005.
Karma Lochrie, Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t.
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Tison Pugh, Queering Medieval Genres. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005