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Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America

Summary: Since the publication of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, historians have accepted the 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. In this extraordinary study, Allen J. Frantzen challenges this long-held belief, showing that the early medieval Church did not tolerate same-sex acts, and, furthermore, that men and women during this time who preferred homosexual relations pursued their desires in spite of official sanctions. The early medieval period was, Frantzen argues, an age before people recognized the existence - or the possibility - of the "closet."

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  • ISBN: 0226260917
  • ISBN: 9780226260914
  • ISBN: 0226260925
  • ISBN: 9780226260921
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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General Note:
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-358) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: ch. 1. What's love got to do with it? -- ch. 2. Kiss and tell: Anglo-Saxon tales of manly men and women -- ch. 3. Surveying same-sex relations in the early middle ages -- ch. 4. Sociology of sex in Anglo-Saxon laws and penitentials -- ch. 5. Shadow of Sodom: same-sex relations in pastoral prose and poetry -- ch. 6. Sex and the Anglo-Saxons from the Norman conquest to the Renaissance -- ch. 7. Alla, angli, and angels in America.
Subject: Kushner, Tony
Beowulf Beowulf
English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism
Homosexuality and literature England History
Anglo-Saxons in literature
Lesbians in literature
Gay men in literature
Love in literature
Lesbian heroines in literature
Homosexuality history
Literature English
Beowulf Beowulf
Kushner, Tony
Beowulf Beowulf
Littérature anglaise ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) Histoire et critique
Homosexualité dans la littérature Angleterre Histoire
Anglo-Saxons dans la littérature
Lesbiennes dans la littérature
Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature
Amour dans la littérature
Homosexualité et littérature Angleterre Histoire
18.05 English literature
Beowulf Beowulf
Lesbian heroines in literature
Anglo-Saxons in literature
English literature Old English
Gay men in literature
Homosexuality and literature
Lesbians in literature
Love in literature
England
Homosexualität
Literatur
Homoseksualiteit
Letterkunde
Engels
Kushner, Tony
Beowulf King of the Geats
English literature Old English, 450-1100 History and criticism
Homosexuality and literature Great Britain History
Anglo-Saxons in literature
Lesbians in literature
Gay men in literature
Love in literature
Englisch
Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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