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Homosexuality and Civilization

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Description for Homosexuality and Civilization Paperback. How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Presenting the exploration of a rich and terrible past, this book chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution. Num Pages: 648 pages, Cloth Edition: 76 color illustrations, 32 halftonesPaperback Edition: 108 black and white. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 972.

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.

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 BCE branded male homosexuality as a capital offense and, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674022331
SKU
V9780674022331
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Louis Crompton
Louis Crompton was Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Nebraska.

Reviews for Homosexuality and Civilization
Brilliantly researched… Crompton, drawing on his immense erudition, contrasts Christianity and its barbaric cruelty toward same-sex love with more benign traditions in Moorish Spain… [He] also discusses the cult of romantic homosexuality in traditional Japan, where relationships of intense loyalty and idealism sprang up between the samurai and their pages.
Edmund White
Los Angeles Times
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