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From: Leo van de Pas <>
Subject: Re: Edward II's Sexuality
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:33:42 +0800


At 04:29 PM 10/8/97 GMT, you wrote:
>In article <>, (Louis Epstein) writes:
>>Panshin () wrote:
>
>>: Here's another quote, from G. Rattray Taylor, _Sex in History_ (1953):
>
>>: Block has denied that Edward II was a homosexual, despite his love for
>>: Piers Gaveston, but it seems likely that he was, since Higden says that
>>: he was 'sleyne with a hoote broche putte thro the secret place
>>: posteriale.'
>
>>I fail to see how homosexuality is necessary to make this method of
>>killing effective.
>
>I would guess that that was the "popular" method of killing homosexuals.
>It is not proof of fact but evidence of perception.
>
>Robert
>
>
>Real Women change
>Real Men change diapers
>
>............The method used to kill Edward II may having nothing
to do with his procivities, was it perhaps a way of killing him without
obvious signs of violence? With a dead king lying in state, who would
look there?
Leo van de Pas

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