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A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
Matt Cook
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Description for A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
Hardcover. Presents the history of love and desire between men in Britain. Covering nearly a thousand years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age, this book talks about not only public figures like Richard the Lionheart or Derek Jarman, but also little-known individuals such as 'Eleanor', a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, and many others. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays ... Read more
The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Praeger
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781846450020
SKU
V9781846450020
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Ref
99-1
About Matt Cook
Matt Cook (lead author and editor) is lecturer in history at Birkbeck College, and author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914 (2003). Robert Mills is a lecturer in English at King's College London, and author of Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005). Randolph Trumbach is professor of history at Baruch ... Read more
Reviews for A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
The authors are professors of history and English at Birbeck and Kings Colleges in London and Baruch College in New York. In chapters focusing on six British eras from the Middle Ages to the present, they examine through literature and other primary documents how intimate emotional and/or sexual relationships between men were understood and defined by those involved and ... Read more