Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America - Couverture souple

Frantzen, Allen J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226260925 ISBN 13 : 9780226260921

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2000

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226260925
• ISBN 13: 9780226260921
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible