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Allen J. Frantzen

Before the Closet

Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America"

380 pages, 12 halftones, 3 tables  6 x 9  © 1998

Cloth $46.00

ISBN: 9780226260914   Published November 1998

Paper $21.00

ISBN: 9780226260921   Published May 2000

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Straightforward
Pt. 1: Trouser Roles and Transvestites
1: What's Love Got to Do with It?
2: Kiss and Tell: Anglo-Saxon Tales of Manly Men and Women
Pt. 2: The Anglo-Saxons
3: Surveying Same-Sex Relations in the Early Middle Ages
4: The Sociology of Sex in Anglo-Saxon Laws and Penitentials
5: The Shadow of Sodom: Same-Sex Relations in Pastoral Prose and Poetry
Pt. 3: From Angles to Angels
6: Sex and the Anglo-Saxons from the Norman Conquest to the Renaissance
7: Alla, Angli, and Angels in America
Afterword: Me and My Shadows
Notes
Index
Subjects



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