Federico Garza Carvajal: 1 book
Butterflies Will Burn
Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came...
