TY - BOOK ID - 67590752 TI - Before the closet : same-sex love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" PY - 1998 SN - 0226260917 PB - London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Anglo-Saxons in literature. KW - English literature KW - Gay men in literature. KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - Lesbians in literature. KW - Love in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Anglo-Saxons in literature KW - Gay men in literature KW - Lesbians in literature KW - Love in literature KW - Literature and homosexuality KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Kushner, Tony. KW - Beowulf. KW - Bjowulf UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67590752 AB - 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 existence--or the possibility--of 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. (Univ. of Chicago Press) ER -