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Fiction or Non-Fiction. Anywhere in the world for the late 5th-late 16th century CE. It's flexible and includes whatever might be categorised as 'Renaissance'. In the case of fiction, it must have been written during the period in question.

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1	Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050–1230 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 51) by William E. Burgwinkle 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance by Heldris de Cornualles 3.88 avg rating — 1,271 ratings score: 163, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy by Dyan Elliott 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Yde and Olive by Mounawar Abbouchi (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 51 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Story of Silence by Alex Myers (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 1,148 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature by David Rollo (Introduction, Translation) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit by Marcus Attwater (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture by Tom Linkinen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	BROTHER MAKING IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND BYZANTIUM (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) by Rapp 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Queering Medieval Genres by Tison Pugh 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature by Tison Pugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Chaucer’s [Anti-]Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages by Tison Pugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Queering Richard Rolle: Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England by Christopher Michael Roman 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe by Joan Cadden 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Chaucer’s Queer Nation (Volume 34) (Medieval Cultures) by Glenn Burger 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Queering the Middle Ages by Glenn Burger (Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies (New Queer Medievalisms, 1) by Will Rogers (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series) by Sahar Amer 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature by David Clark really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire by Mark Masterson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts by Elizabeth B. Keiser 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Queer Love in the Middle Ages by Anna Klosowska 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages by Robert Mills 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) by Helmut Puff 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature by Charlie Samuelson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt 3.86 avg rating — 95 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography by Alicia Spencer-Hall (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Series Q) by Josiah Blackmore (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture by Felipe Rojas (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature by J.W. Wright Jr. (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 by Khaled El-Rouayheb 3.99 avg rating — 162 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book by Ahmad Al-Tifashi 3.52 avg rating — 136 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850 - 1780 A.D. by Samar Habib 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History by Ruth Vanita 4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms by François Soyer 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke 4.15 avg rating — 124 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship by Thomas Stehling (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Series Q) by Carolyn Dinshaw 4.32 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 4.15 avg rating — 135 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe by Gary Ferguson 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices by Peter Damian 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe by Elizabeth L'Estrange (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney (Editor) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Third Gender and Ælfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L. McDaniel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships by Kathryn Warner (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Pamela Sheingorn (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights by David Ghanim liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700) (Crime and City in History, 6) by Jonas Roelens 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Sodomy in Early Modern Europe by Tom Betteridge (Editor) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 (Gender in the Middle Ages, 12) by Victoria Blud 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse by Robert S. Sturges 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image by Emma Campbell (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Queering the Renaissance (Series Q) by Jonathan Goldberg 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities by Jonathan Goldberg 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray 3.88 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Stephen Orgel 3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Closet Devotions (Series Q) by Richard Rambuss 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe by Kent Gerard really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe by Margaret W. Ferguson (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton by Gregory W. Bredbeck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Premodern Sexualities by Louise Fradenburg liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy by Jacqueline Murray (editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance by Armando Maggi 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society by James M. Saslow 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance by John S. Garrison really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance by Todd W. Reeser 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650 by Kenneth Borris (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 38, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics by Bruce R. Smith 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 37, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 66) by Susanna Elm 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 36, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Sex Between Men in Early Muslim Discourses: A Historical Genealogy by Sara Omar (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 35, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars