Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen.
Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen.
Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N829.09353/1
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English
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x, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Straightforward -- Pt. 1. Trouser Roles and Transvestites. 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? 2. Kiss and Tell: Anglo-Saxon Tales of Manly Men and Women -- Pt. 2. The Anglo-Saxons. 3. Surveying Same-Sex Relations in the Early Middle Ages. 4. The Sociology of Sex in Anglo-Saxon Laws and...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Illinois
Date Published
1998.
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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-h...
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Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-358) and index.
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N829.09353/1
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74VMyvLxDBdl
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0226260925 :
9780226260914 (acid-free paper)
0226260917 (acid-free paper)
9780226260921 (pbk.)
0226260925 (pbk.)
9780226260921 :
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829.09353
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991002006959702626
