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Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.

Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009.
2003
306.76609 C945h 2003
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Title
Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
Author
Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009.
ISBN
067401197X (alk. paper)
9780674011977 (alk. paper)
0674022335
9780674022331
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xv, 623 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number
306.76609 C945h 2003
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51855520
(OCoLC)51855520
Summary
"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 with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009. Homosexuality & civilization. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003
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