Post-Stonewall gay men's culture, cludg sexual/erotic culture, stands a nsistent (but largely unanalyzed) relatnship to the Middle Ag.1 To repren
Contents:
- TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
- BT GAY HISTORIL ROMANCE
- JOHN E. BOSWELL, 47, HISTORIAN OF MEDIEVAL GAY CULTURE, DI
TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
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BT GAY HISTORIL ROMANCE
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JOHN E. BOSWELL, 47, HISTORIAN OF MEDIEVAL GAY CULTURE, DI
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Terms we might sually treat as terchangeable have subtly different semantic meangs; homoromantilly cled but entirely celibate medieval monks uld perhaps reasonably today be scribed as 'gay' (as preferred by Boswell, 1980) but would be awkward and possibly accurate to refer to them as homosexual. Byzante bishops (5th century) tortured and mutilated as a punishment for homosexualy, alongsi untls other, unnamed victims of late Roman and Byzante of the foundatns of what we see early medieval Europe were laid by the Roman Empire, which at s height fluenced almost all rners of the ntent.
Both heterosexual and homosexual partnerships, love, and sex were monplace and nsired unremarkable.
Likewise, whilst sex sndals and legal s often ncerned both heterosexual and homosexual affairs, was the nduct, participants’ stat, and issu of nsent which formed the matter of ncern. Stigma attached to homosexual terurse was borne by the receptive partner ('the beloved'), who Roman ey had allowed himself to be subordated to a lower stat than the active (peratg) partner (‘the lover').