King James VI and I and the History of Homosexuality

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James VI and I was the most prominent homosexual figure in the early modern period. Young has amassed the evidence surrounding James and related it to the larger history of homosexuality. The result is a synthesis of old and new history that illuminates Jacobean politics and challenges many current assumptions about effeminacy, manliness, sodomy, sexual constructs and sexual discourse before the eighteenth century.

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MICHAEL B. YOUNG is Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has published two previous books and a series of articles about Charles I, parliamentary history and early Stuart politics.

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