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Forbidden Desire by Noel Malcolm review: gay Renaissance sex

From 18th-century ‘cruising’ to grim punishments, Noel Malcolm's Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe sheds is sure to raise hackles ....

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Why were masters of the occult respected but witches burnt?

It has long been acknowledged that alchemy, however bizarre its premises, is the fore-runner of modern chemistry, compelling a figure as rational as Sir Isaac Newton. Other aspects of Renaissance thought are harder to assimilate. In his study of five crucial figures of the 15th and 16th centuries, Anthony Grafton aims to demonstrate that astrology, ....

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