Homosexuality & civilization /
"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2003
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Early Greece: 776-480 BCE
- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE
- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE
- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE
- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE
- Darkness descends: 476-1049
- Medieval world: 1050-1321
- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849
- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609
- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700
- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715
- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702
- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868
- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730
- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793
- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.