To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵 @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social - ThreadSky

duffcooperprize.bsky.social • 21 days ago

To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social

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achatenetc.bsky.social•20 days ago

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duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

'A brilliant piece of scholarship, applying for the first time a genuinely historical frame to same sex behaviour in the past. It is forensic, but utterly engrossing.'
@DuffCooperPrize judge, Miles Young, on Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe. @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social

duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

‘The biggest surprise, I suppose, was the discovery that most of what had been written on this subject (with a few shining exceptions) was wrong’. Noel Malcolm discussing his work. Read the interview on our website:
https://duffcooperprize.org/conversation-with/noel-malcolm/

duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

“I defy anyone with any feel for the English language to dip into this book and not become completely absorbed." Noel Malcolm recommends his favourite non-fiction books on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/noel-malcolm-s-recommended-reads

duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 is astonishing: one of the most compelling and accomplished pieces of social history that I have read.’
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/65021/man-to-man-noel-malcolm-forbidden-desire-review

duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

‘Malcolm resists the wishful thinking of historians who double as gay activists and back-project “anachronistic sexual significances” on to blameless friendships between medieval men.’
@observeruk.bsky.social Peter Conrad on Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/28/forbidden-desire-in-early-modern-europe-male-male-sexual-relations-1400-1750-review-by-noel-malcolm-christianitys-barbaric-war-against-homosexuality

duffcooperprize.bsky.social•21 days ago

‘The follow-on conclusion is surprising, but, as one might expect from Malcolm, also logical, impressive and inevitable.’
@janmachielsen.bsky.social reviews Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe in @thetls.bsky.social £
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/history/early-modern-history/forbidden-desire-in-early-modern-europe-by-noel-malcolm-book-review

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