Project MUSE - My Gay Middle Ag

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MY GAY MIDDLE AG

” In this later perd, we see a newfound homophobic ristance to the re that, the reactn’s vrl, speaks to the role this re uld really play for men mtg themselv to each other: The Patriarch’s words acknowledge the realy that no matter s tentn, the re enabled the space for sexual timaci between men. The Experience of Homosexualy the Middle AgBy Pl HalsallPublished Onle (1988)Introductn: Homosexual sex was wispread the Middle Ag and there is abundant rmatn on what church wrers and secular legislators thought about . Shoddy or partisan scholarship and a distctly morn disda of homosexuals by scholars until recently marked much of the discsn of the history of this medieval homosexualy.

The ncentratn has tend to be on the Church’s, or society’s, attu to homosexualy.

This paper tak a different tack and looks at the personal experience the Middle Ag of those we would now ll homosexuals and the stctur which they were able to experience their sexualy. This will be, necsarily, a amework for the experience of homosexual mal for signifint rmatn exists only about men and boys.

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