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Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003Description: xv, 623 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067401197X
  • 9780674011977
Other title:
  • Homosexuality & civilisation
  • Homosexuality and civilization
  • Homosexuality and civilisation
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76609 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.25 .C76 2003
Contents:
1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- 2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- 3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- 4. Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- 5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE -- 6. Darkness Descends: 416-1049 -- 7. Medieval World: 1050-1321 -- 8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- 9. Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- 10. Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- 11. France From Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- 12. England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- 13. Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- 14. Patterns of Persecution: 1700-1730 -- 15. Sapphic Lovers: 1700-1793 -- 16. The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.

1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- 2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- 3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- 4. Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- 5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE -- 6. Darkness Descends: 416-1049 -- 7. Medieval World: 1050-1321 -- 8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- 9. Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- 10. Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- 11. France From Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- 12. England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- 13. Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- 14. Patterns of Persecution: 1700-1730 -- 15. Sapphic Lovers: 1700-1793 -- 16. The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.

"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.

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