Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America by Allen J. Frantzen - 2000-05-01

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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.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Paperback. x, 369p., introduction, afterword, notes, index, appendixes, endnotes, tables, illustrated with photos, very good second printing trade paperback edition in pictorial wraps.

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 380 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Examining the intolerance of homosexuality in the early medieval period, this study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated same-sex relations. The work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre.

University of Chicago Press, 2000-05-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!