Before the closet
Gay men in literature
Beowulf
Lesbians in literature
Love in literature
LGBTQ history
Homosexuality and literature
Homosexuality
English literature
English
Literature
History and criticism
History
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 …
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