TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crompton,Louis
TI  - Homosexuality & civilization
SN  - 067401197X
AV  - HQ76.25 .C76 2003
U1  - 306.76609 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - History
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Homophobia
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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