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  Contributor Biography:  Cristian Berco 
 
Cristian Berco is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in the University of Toronto, where he is currently researching the impact of syphilis in early modern Spain. He has published articles on Moriscos and crime, sexuality and religiosity in Zaragoza, and the decriminalization of sodomy in Argentina.

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social sciences >> Inquisition

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Inquisitions of Aragon and Portugal prosecuted almost 1500 trials for sodomy of various kinds.

social sciences >> Spain

From a particularly strong application of sodomy laws in the early modern period to a liberalization of sexual mores since the 1980s, Spanish society has displayed an ambivalent and complex relationship to sexual minorities.

   

 

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