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369 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226260921
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 May 2000
Description
Allen J. Frantzen challenges the 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. Frantzen shows that in early medieval E...
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369 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226260921
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 May 2000
Description
Allen J. Frantzen challenges the 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. Frantzen shows that in early medieval E...