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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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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'). Permissive attus towards homosexual relatnships were th a rult of the possibily of (perhaps creatively) prentg them publicly the accepted hierarchil amgs, which were seen to rerce the layered stcture of Roman the 3rd century, however, this permissivens cled, likely due to a massive expansn of cizenship stat among the men who lived wh Roman terrory.
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For centuri, the legal attempts to curtail perasty om the 3rd century onward have been mistranslated and misterpreted as broar attacks on homosexualy self, but although the laws (and the laws agast male sex work) were ed to socially police which men uld have sex wh each other and what way, explic proscriptn agast 'sodomy' did not occur Roman law until the 5th century. Certaly, om that pot on, if not before, the persecutns were btal, and growg hostily to homosexualy seems to have been nnected wh the dwdlg of socially acceptable optns for stat dynamics wh same-sex pairgs. By the fall of the Wtern Roman Empire there are rerds of men acced of homosexual acts beg burned at the stake ‒ a policy picked up and ntued by both the Goths and the Byzante/Eastern Empire well to the 6th century.
The latg mpaign of vlent persecutn of participants homosexual activi the late Empire was one facet of a wir mpaign of tolerance agast other 'heri' (philosophil schools, practic, religns). Jtianian’s Novellae Constutn specifilly lked homosexualy to the crim of the biblil Soddam and Gomorrah, jtifyg crimalisatn by assertg threatened the Empire wh dive punishment the form of disasters.