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EPISODE · Mar 24, 2026 · 11 MIN

11. Arnoldus Rotgers' deadly advice

from ECHOES - stories from four centuries of Groningen university · host ECHOES - a UKrant podcast

A small hamlet in Groningen was, nearly 400 years ago, the setting of the largest sodomy trial ever held in the Netherlands. Twenty-one men were killed — all because of the lust for power of a local nobleman and the willing assistance of a Groningen professor.The Deadly Advice of Arnoldus Rotgers is the third episode of the third season of the UKrant podcast Echoes. Christien Boomsma takes you back to 1731 — the year in which twenty-one men and boys were burned at the stake for alleged homosexual acts.** ShownotesTheo van der Meer, Sodoms zaad in Nederland. Het ontstaan van homoseksualiteit in de vroegmoderne tijd (Amsterdam 1995)D.J. Noordam, Riskante relaties. Vijf eeuwen homoseksualiteit in Nederland 1233-1733 (Hilversum 1995)L.J. Boon, ‘Dien godlosen hoop van menschen’. Vervolging van homoseksuelen in de Republiek in de jaren dertig van de achttiende eeuw (Amsterdam 1997)Een aantal pamfletten en het advies van Arnoldus Rotgers zijn digitaal te raadplegen, waaronder:Het advies van Arnoldus Rotgers aan Rudolf de MepscheKorte aenmerkingen en consideratien met de daar toe dienende justificatoire bylagen geformeert op de gehoudene crimineele proceduiren by den heere de Mepsche van Faen ten reguarde van veele personen by hem betigt, geapprehendeert gevonnist en geëxecuteert, wegens het crimen van sodomie waar van deselve naer syn voorgeven souden wesen geconvinceertKorte aanmerkingen en consideratien: Afgeperste verantwoording, dienende tot ontdecking van des onbekenden schryvers lastertaal, en justificatie der gehoudene proceduiren, omtrent vier-en-twintig gesententieerde en elf gesaiseerde personen wegens sodomy: gehouden by de geassumeerde adviseurs van 't H. Ed. Gerichte van Oosterdeel Langewold. Helsche boosheit of Grouwelyke zonde van sodomie, in haar afschouwelykheit, en welverdiende straffe uit goddelyke, en menschelyke schriften tot een spiegel voor het tegenwoordige, en toekomende geslagte opentlyk ten toon gestelt

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