Homosexuality & civilization /
Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009
Homosexuality & civilization / Homosexuality & civilisation Homosexuality and civilization Homosexuality and civilisation Louis Crompton. - xv, 623 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
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: 416-1049 -- 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
067401197X 9780674011977
2003045327
Homosexuality--History.
Gender identity--History
Homophobia--History
HQ76.25 / .C76 2003
306.76609
Homosexuality & civilization / Homosexuality & civilisation Homosexuality and civilization Homosexuality and civilisation Louis Crompton. - xv, 623 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
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: 416-1049 -- 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
067401197X 9780674011977
2003045327
Homosexuality--History.
Gender identity--History
Homophobia--History
HQ76.25 / .C76 2003
306.76609