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mods: Before the closet same-sex love from Beowulf to Angels in America Frantzen, Allen J. 1947- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. ilu 1998 monographic eng print x, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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." 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. Allen J. Frantzen. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author. Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-358) and index. e-uk--- n-us--- Kushner, Tony Beowulf English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism Homosexuality and literature England History Anglo-Saxons in literature Lesbians in literature Gay men in literature Love in literature Homosexuality history Literature English Beowulf Kushner, Tony Beowulf Littérature angla…