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Being a Lesbian Was a Dangerous Business in the Southern Netherlands
20 October 2022
Women who liked women were punished more severely in the Southern Netherlands than elsewhere in Europe during the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Historian Jonas Roelens has discovered that between 1400 and 1550, 25 female sodomites were persecuted. This figure is exceptionally high compare
The Sodom of the North. Homosexuals Were Burned at the Stake in Medieval Bruges
9 April 2020
Belgium is one of the most tolerant countries when it comes to LGBTQ rights. But it hasn’t always been that way. Nowhere in Western Europe were homosexual men persecuted as much as in Bruges in the late Middle Ages. Research by historian Jonas Roelens shows that the economic crisis, the need for s