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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 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.
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Anglo-Saxons in literature, Beowulf, English literature, Gay men in literature, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Lesbians in literature, Love in literature, English literature, history and criticism, old english, ca. 450-1100, LGBTQ historyPeople
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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"
May 1, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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0226260925 9780226260921
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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America
1998, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226260917 9780226260914
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