The Historical Locker Room

Locker Room Talk: Men Discussing Women in the Middle Ages and Now

Rachel Moss 4 February 201913 December 2022

The way medieval men write about women can be more sophisticated and less immediately offensive discourse than Trump's pussy-talk, but their language may ultimately share a similarly dismissive attitude toward women as individuals with…

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Missing Voices in the Age of the Beloveds: Ottoman Same Sex Intimacy

Nailya Shamgunova 30 January 201913 December 2022

Just remembering queer Muslim pasts is not enough - we should acknowledge their inherent power imbalances

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Underneath the Arches: Gilbert & George, Homosociality, and Post-War Reconstruction

Greg Salter 28 January 201913 December 2022

Gilbert & George's Underneath The Arches seems to stray from the certainty of a specific location and structure, allowing the experience of homelessness to be transfigured into a performance that evokes queer masculinity, the uncanny…

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A Hundred Men Bathing: Male Bonding in the Early Medieval West

Rachel Stone 23 January 201913 December 2022

How did a hundred naked men in a bath help create a great empire? Charlemagne's pool parties suggest a male elite that had been heavily socialised not to respond to potential insults to honour by their fellows.

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“Never in the Presence of Any Woman”: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education

Samuel Rutherford 21 January 201913 December 2022

If you were the president of a higher education institution, would you accept a substantial donation to endow a professorship on the condition that you also construct a tunnel between the professor's lodgings and student accommodation? This…

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Locker Room Talk: Men Discussing Women in the Middle Ages and Now

Missing Voices in the Age of the Beloveds: Ottoman Same Sex Intimacy

Underneath the Arches: Gilbert & George, Homosociality, and Post-War Reconstruction

A Hundred Men Bathing: Male Bonding in the Early Medieval West

“Never in the Presence of Any Woman”: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education