Sodoma, del Viejo al Nuevo Mundo

Abstract

The first historiographical accounts of Spanish Conquest of America offer one of the best ways to understand religious and political discourses around European sexualities in late Middle Ages. This is specially relevant if an analysis of the representations of sodomy and homoeroticism is developed. After a reading of chronicles such as those written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Bernardino de Sahagún, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, and Bartolomé de Las Casas, this article intruduces some reflections on the meanings related to Sodom (as a cultural and ideological geography) in the post-Reconquista Iberian context.