help, hounskull attached to my neck and I'm in it!

Or, A Compilation of Resources for If You, Personally, Enjoy Giving Your Historical Smut Unnecessary Numbers of Footnotes

[the books I personally found most useful are marked with * - this does not mean I'm asserting they are the Best because I am an AMATEUR okay]

Sodomy in Medieval Europe

[*]Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century [this was the Original work on medieval gays in many ways -- lots of the works below are responding to, updating and evaluating this in the light of further research, so it is very useful to have read but isn't the most up-to-date assessment.]

Brundage, Law, Sex, and Medieval Society

*Cadden, Nothing Natural is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

Greenberg, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality and the Jewish Tradition [this turned out to be primarily a personal philosophical exploration of reconciling Judaism with queer sexuality, but does have some excellent medieval sources of queer Hebrew poetry for any Jamuel scholars out there.]

Goodich, The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period

*Karras, Doing Unto Others: Sexuality in Medieval Europe

Klosowska (ed), Queer Love in the Middle Ages

*Kuefler (ed), The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

*Malcolm, Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

Mills, Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

Rogers & Roman (eds), Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies

Samuelson, Courtly & Queer: Deconstruction, Desire and Medieval French Lit

Schultz, Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality

*Zeikowitz, Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourse of Male Same-sex Desire in the 14th Century

Chivalry and Knightly Culture

Capellanus (transl. Parry), The Art of Courtly Love [primary source]

*Charny (transl. Kaeuper & Kennedy), The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation [primary source: descriptions of knighting ceremony, courtly love, knightly training, etc.]

Crouch, The Chivalric Turn

Gest, Chivalry

Harper-Bill & Ruth Harvey (eds), Ideals and Practices of Medieval Knighthood (Papers from the Strawberry Hill Conferences) (Vols 1 & 4)

*Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe

Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe

Keen (ed), Heraldry, Pageantry & Social Display

Keen, Nobles, Knights, and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages

*Prestwich, Knight: The Medieval Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual [popular-style book, but has GREAT advice about HOW to actually joust for when you want to make Hans/Henry sound like they know what they're doing]

Other Aspects of Medieval Life and Religion

d'Avray, Medieval Marriage

Salih, 'Unpleasures of the Flesh: Medieval Marriage, Masochism, and the History of Heterosexuality' (Studies in the Age of Chaucer, vol.33, 2011)

Simon, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe