Reading list category History of Boylove

Overviews

• Greek Love by J.Z. Eglinton. Looks at the history of boy-love from Greece through to the present.
• Loving Boys 2 vols, by Edward Brongersma. Volume 1, p.67-87, contains an overview of the history of man-boy relationships.
• The Rite of Sodomy 5 vols, by Randy Engel. Volume 1.
• The Beautiful Boy by Germaine Greer. Examines the history of beautiful boys in art.
• Phallos: A symbol and its History in the Male World, by Thorkil Vanggaard.
• Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, by Bret Hinsch.
• The Love of the Samurai: a thousand years of Japanese homosexuality, by Tsuneo Watanabe & Jun'ichi Iwata.

Ancient Greece

• Greek Homosexuality (1978) by Kenneth Dover.
• Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece (1996) by William Armstrong Percy III.
• The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World (2009) by James Davidson.
• A Defence of Uranian Love (2009) by Edward Perry Warren.
• Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty. Boys were their Gods (2008) by Andrew Lear & Eva Cantarella.
• The Gay Greek Myths (2002) by Andrew Calimach.

Ancient Greece and Rome

• Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents (2003) by Thomas K. Hubbard.
• Bisexuality in the Ancient World (1992) by Eva Cantarella.
• The Crucifixion of Hyacinth (2000) by Geoff Puterbaugh.

Ancient Rome

• Roman Homosexuality (2010) by Craig A. Williams.
• Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous (1984) by Royston Lambert.

1450

• Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (1998)
• Ganymede in the Renaissance (1986) by James M. Saslow.

1500

• The Age of the Beloveds (2005) by W.A. Andrews & Mehmet Kalpakli. Introduces 16th Century Ottoman culture through a study of lyric love poetry.

1600

Male Colors: The Constructions of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (1997) by Gary Leupp. Homosexuality in Japan, 1603-1868. The Great Mirror of Male Love (1991) by Ihara Saikaku. A collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons.

1700

Boys at Sea (2007) by B.R. Burg. A study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail.

1750

Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience (1990) by Ronald Hyam. Understanding the British Empire (2010) by Ronald Hayam. Chapter 5 looks at sexuality.

1800

Byron: Life and Legend (2004) by Fiona McCarthy. William Beckford: Composing Mozart (1998) by Timothy Mowl. Documents the colourful life of William Beckford, who scandalized Victorian society by indulging in homoerotic and paedophile activities until the Tory administration exiled him.

1850

The Enigmatic Edwardian (1988) by James Lees-Milne. Tells of Lord Esher's private life where he indulged in a series of relationships with youths and was seen to develop an unhealthy passion for Maurice, considered to be the dullest and least attractive of his children. The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: An Intimate Biography (2003) by Neil McKenna.

1900

The Real Tadzio (2001) by Gilbert Adair.

1950

Britten's Children (2006) by John Bridcut. The Poisoned Bowl: Sex and the Public School (1996) by Alisdare Hickson.

See also

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