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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Main Author: Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003
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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.