Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Frantzen, Allen J., 1947- |
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000, c1998. |
| Description: | x, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7800771 |
| Summary: | 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."<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> "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<br> |
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| Physical Description: | x, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226260917 9780226260914 0226260925 9780226260921 |