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Before the Closet : Same-Sex Love from BEOWULF to ANGELS IN AMERICA
by Frantzen, Allen J
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New condition/As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0226260917
- ISBN 13
- 9780226260914
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. As New condition in bright, shiny As New Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No rubbing. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp, apparently never read. Illustrations. Chapter notes. Index. First printing, with complete number row (12345) on the copyright page. Black cloth spine/maroon boards. From the Dust Jacket: "In this extraordinary study Allen J. Frantzen challenges this 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], showing that the early medieval Church did not tolerate same-sex acts, and, furthermore, that men and women who preferred homosexual relations pursued their desies 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.' 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." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/As New dust jacket. 8vo. x, 369pp..
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002785
- Title
- Before the Closet : Same-Sex Love from BEOWULF to ANGELS IN AMERICA
- Author
- Frantzen, Allen J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New condition
- Jacket Condition
- As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226260917
- ISBN 13
- 9780226260914
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
- Size
- 8vo. x, 369pp.
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