Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"
by Allen J. Frantzen
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Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval period. Frantzen shows that in early medieval Europe, the Church did not tolerate same-sex acts, in fact it was an age before people recognized the existenceand#8212;or the possibilityand#8212;of the "closet."
With its ambitious scope and elegant style, Before the Closet sets same-sex relations in Anglo-Saxon sources in relation to the sexual themes of contemporary opera, dance, and theatre. Frantzen offers a comprehensive analysis of sources from the seventh to the twelfth century and traces Anglo-Saxon same-sex behavior through the age of Chaucer and into the Renaissance.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ2678348
- Title
- Before the Closet
- Author
- Allen J. Frantzen
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226260925
- ISBN 13
- 9780226260921
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- May 1, 2000
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- LGBTQIA;