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HOMOSEXUALITY & CIVILIZATION

HOMOSEXUALITY & CIVILIZATION
Louis Crompton

How have major civilisations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution.

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. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters - from Donatello to Caravagio.

640 pages, over 100 b&w illustrations, paperback

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Author Louis Crompton

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