Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
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Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2003.
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N306.76609/ 9
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English
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xv, 623 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- 2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- 3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- 4. Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- 5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE -- 6. Darkness Descends: 416-1049 -- 7. Medieval World: 1050-1321 -- 8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- 9. Italy in the Renaissance...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2003.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2003.
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"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spa...
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Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
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Includes Index.
Bibliography: p. 564-597.
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c2003.
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N306.76609/ 9
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74VveGqEK7aZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VveGqEK7aZ
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067401197X (alk. paper)
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306.76609
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991017126749702626
