Snug Bug's Play Day (All Aboard Reading)
Cathy East Dubowski
ISBN: | 9780448416236 |
Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap |
Published: | 13 October, 1997 |
Format: | Paperback |
Snug Bug's Play Day (All Aboard Reading)
Cathy East Dubowski
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 existenceor the possibilityof 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
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