This volume gathers scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by thinkers in this relatively new field. By using the analytical tools of queer theory, these international, interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history. This book answers and raises questions about male love, sex, friendship and intimacy in the early modern era. It is a revaluation on that takes into account how widely this matter has been debated since the 1990s and is a useful contribution to gay, lesbian and queer studies; sexual, social and cultural history; and early modern and enlightenment studies more generally.