001478311 000__ 06005nam\a22008295i\4500 001478311 001__ 1478311 001478311 003__ DE-B1597 001478311 005__ 20231026034856.0 001478311 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478311 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478311 008__ 221201t20062003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478311 020__ $$a9780674030060 001478311 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674030060$$2doi 001478311 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)584795 001478311 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1322125425 001478311 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478311 0410_ $$aeng 001478311 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478311 050_4 $$aHQ76.25 ǂb C76 2003eb 001478311 072_7 $$aHIS037000$$2bisacsh 001478311 08204 $$a306.76/6/09 001478311 1001_ $$aCrompton, Louis, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478311 24510 $$aHomosexuality and Civilization /$$cLouis Crompton. 001478311 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2006] 001478311 264_4 $$c©2003 001478311 300__ $$a1 online resource (648 p.) 001478311 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478311 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478311 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478311 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478311 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$t1. EARLY GREECE 776-480 BCE -- $$t2. JUDEA 900 BCE-600 CE -- $$t3. CLASSICAL GREECE 480-323 BCE -- $$t4. ROME AND GREECE 323 BCE-138 CE -- $$t5. CHRISTIANS AND PAGANS 1-565 CE -- $$t6. DARKNESS DESCENDS 476-1049 -- $$t7. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 1050-1321 -- $$t8. IMPERIAL CHINA 500 BCE-1849 -- $$t9. ITALY IN THE RENAISSANCE 1321-1609 -- $$t10. SPAIN AND THE INQUISITION 1497-1700 -- $$t11. FRANCE FROM CALVIN TO LOUIS XIV 1517-1715 -- $$t12. ENGLAND FROM THE REFORMATION TO WILLIAM III 1533-1702 -- $$t13. PRE-MEIJI JAPAN 800-1868 -- $$t14. PATTERNS OF PERSECUTION 1700-1730 -- $$t15. SAPPHIC LOVERS 1700-1793 -- $$t16. THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1730-1810 -- $$tCONCLUSION -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIllustration Credits -- $$tIndex 001478311 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478311 520__ $$aHow 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. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. By contrast, Jewish religious leaders in the sixth century B.C.E. branded male homosexuality as a capital offense and, later, blamed it for the destruction of the biblical city of Sodom. When these two traditions collided in Christian Rome during the late empire, the tragic repercussions were felt throughout Europe and the New World. Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of "sodomites" in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition. But Protestant authorities were equally committed to the execution of homosexuals in the Netherlands, Calvin's Geneva, and Georgian England. The root cause was religious superstition, abetted by political ambition and sheer greed. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters-Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Sodoma, Cellini, and Caravaggio-often intertwined with Christian motifs. Homosexuality also flourished in the court intrigues of Henry III of France, Queen Christina of Sweden, James I and William III of England, Queen Anne, and Frederick the Great. Anti-homosexual atrocities committed in the West contrast starkly with the more tolerant traditions of pre-modern China and Japan, as revealed in poetry, fiction, and art and in the lives of emperors, shoguns, Buddhist priests, scholars, and actors. In the samurai tradition of Japan, Crompton makes clear, the celebration of same-sex love rivaled that of ancient Greece. 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