An edition of Before the closet (1998)

Before the Closet

Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America

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An edition of Before the closet (1998)

Before the Closet

Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America

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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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369

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Cover of: Before the Closet
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"
May 1, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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Cover of: Before the Closet
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America
1998, University of Chicago Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-358) and index.

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Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
829/.09353
Library of Congress
PR179.H66 F73 1998, PR179.H66F73 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 369 p. :
Number of pages
369

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL355166M
Internet Archive
beforeclosetsame00fran
ISBN 10
0226260917
LCCN
98014935
OCLC/WorldCat
38557330
Library Thing
244900
Goodreads
752180

First Sentence

"In this book I explore same-sex love in English culture of the early Middle Ages, approximately AD 600 to 1200."

Work Description

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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