The pursuit of sodomy: male homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe.

Sodomy in enlightenment Prussia: from execution to suicide.

Homosexuals and the death penalty in colonial America.

This article traces the legislative history of statues prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in dropping the death penalty.

Madness and Civilisation

main theme a fascinating topic. In Renaissance Europe the insane were frequently at large. The Age of Enlightenment, coinciding with the increased growth of cities, seems to have led to their confinement?and to intensified ill-treatment. The account of these developments enables Dr. Foucault to imply that the role of the doctor as a magician and as the protagonist of society's attitudes to the ...

The Role of the Crusade Wars in Transition of Islamic-Persian Medicine to Europe

One of the most important and influential events in the interaction between Islamic civilization and the West was the Crusades, which lasted for nearly two centuries and extended from Europe to the Levant and Egypt. The main reasons for these wars, apparently, were the religious zeal of the Christians to seize Jerusalem from the Muslims and, in fact, the territorial expansion and influx of the ...

In the shadow of the Enlightenment. Occultism and Renaissance science in eighteenth-century America