Table of Contents

Acknowledgments A Prelude after Nietzsche: The Responsibilities of a History of Sodomy 1: The Passions of St. Pelagius 2: The Discovery of Sodomy 3: Peter Damian: Books in Gomorrah 4: Alan of Lille: Natural Artifices 5: The Care of Sodomites 6: Albert the Great: The Sodomitic Physiology 7: Thomas Aquinas: The Sin against Nature A Postlude after St. Ambrose: The Responsibilities of a Theology of Sodomy Works Cited Index

About the Author

Mark D. Jordan is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University. He was previously the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and also taught at the University of Notre Dame and Emory University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.