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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "beowulf" to "angels in America" - Softcover

Frantzen, Allen J.

 
9780226260921: Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "beowulf" to "angels in America"
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226260925 ISBN 13: 9780226260921
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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 existence--or the possibility--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.

"Frantzen's marvelous book . . . opens up a world most readers will never have even known was there. It's a difficult topic, but Frantzen's comprehensive, readable and even wryly funny treatment makes this an unexpected pleasure."--Publishers Weekly, starred review


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allen J. Frantzen is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America."

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226260925
ISBN 13 
9780226260921
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
380
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