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Louis Crompton: Homosexuality and Civilization

Louis Crompton: Homosexuality and Civilization

USA/UK 2003, 623 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 49.99
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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. Sweeping in scope, and lavishly illustrated, this book is exploring a rich and terrible past. 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. So, homosexuality is associated with the inner workings of civilization itself. It begins in the gladness of early Greece, where homosexuality had an »honored place« for more than a millennium, and concludes with the madness of 19th-century Europe. In between is what Crompton calls a »kaleidoscope of horrors« lasting more than 1,500 years.
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