Before the closet : same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen.

• ch. 1. What's love got to do with it? -- ch. 2. Kiss and tell: Anglo-Saxon tales of manly men and women -- ch. 3. Surveying same-sex relations in the early middle ages -- ch. 4. Sociology of sex in Anglo-Saxon laws and penitentials -- ch. 5. Shadow of Sodom: same-sex relations in pastoral prose and poetry -- ch. 6. Sex and the Anglo-Saxons from the Norman conquest to the Renaissance -- ch. 7. Alla, angli, and angels in America.

• 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-held belief, showing that the early medieval Church did not tolerate same-sex acts, and, furthermore, that men and women during this time who preferred homosexual relations pursued their desires in spite of official sanctions. The early medieval period was, Frantzen argues, an age before people recognized the existence - or the possibility - of the "closet." 

Ämnesord

Anglo-Saxons in literature.  (LCSH)

Lesbians in literature.  (LCSH)

Gay men in literature.  (LCSH)

Love in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Homosexuality and literature  -- England -- History. (LCSH)

Homosexuality  -- history. (MeSH)

Literature  -- English. (MeSH)

Anglo-Saxons dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Lesbiennes dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Amour dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Homosexualité dans la littérature  -- Angleterre -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

18.05 English literature.  (bcl)

Anglo-Saxons in literature.  (fast)

Gay men in literature.  (fast)

Homosexuality and literature.  (fast)

Lesbians in literature.  (fast)

Love in literature.  (fast)

Homosexualität  (gnd)

Literatur  (gnd)

Homoseksualiteit.  (gtt)

Letterkunde.  (gtt)

Engels.  (gtt)

English literature  -- Old English. (fast)

England.  (fast)

Englisch.  (swd)

450-1100  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Namn/titel

Kushner, Tony, 1956-: Angels in America. 

Kushner, Tony, 1956-: Angels in America. 

Titel

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Klassifikation

PR179.H66 (LCC)

829/.09353 (DDC)

18.05 (bcl)