Visions of Sodom: Religion and Sexuality since the Reformation

March 14, 2017

In September 1850, the French savant Louis-Felicien de Saulcy, charged with a Mission Scientifique from the French government, and in the company of a Catholic priest and four young men on a tour of the East, set out to circumnavigate and map the Dead Sea.  Four months later, on his way round the shores of …