Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Antiquity : eros, lust and self-possessed government
The middle ages : Edward II's favourites : one throne, two kings
The early modern age : King James, effeminacy and spineless policy
The Victorian age : the rhetorical conflation of homosexuality and bad government in the Cleveland street and Dublin castle scandals
Late modernity : homosexuality, disloyalty and falling below the standards of public life
Conclusions
Index.