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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"(Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"(Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)


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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. "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

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments 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 Penitentials 5: The Shadow of Sodom: Same-Sex Relations in Pastoral Prose and Poetry Pt. 3: From Angles to Angels 6: Sex and the Anglo-Saxons from the Norman Conquest to the Renaissance 7: Alla, Angli, and Angels in America Afterword: Me and My Shadows Notes Index

About the Author :
Allen J. Frantzen is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226260914
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 24 mm
  • No of Pages: 380
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
  • Sub Title: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"
  • Width: 16 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0226260917
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr


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