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Bertolina Guercia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 151 with Heather Rose Jones

The story of a 13th century Italian woman who seems to have openly had sexual relationships with women.

In this episode we talk about:

• Who was Bertolina Guercia and what was her life like?


• How was Bertolina’s sexuality described by witnesses?


• The surprising acceptance of Bertolina’s lesbianism


• Sources mentioned
  • Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
  
  
  • Puff, Helmut. 2000. "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: 30:1, 41-61.
  
  
  • Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  
  
  
  


• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Bertolina Guercia

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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