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Contents:
- HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR
- BYZANTE EMPIRE, HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR
- THEMSTORY: THE HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE OM THE BYZANTE EMPIRE TO PRENT DAY
- GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR
* gay byzantine emperor *
The projects he unrtook durg his reign, specifilly the dified law that was the Corp Juris Civilis have fluenced the character of punishment towards homosexualy throughout the middle ag and until today. As an emperor, Jtian had a particularly unfavourable attu towards homosexualy which he exprsed the Corp Juris Civilis and other laws passed at the time.
BYZANTE EMPIRE, HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR
” (Extract) He also prcribed btal and horrific punishments for homosexualy which was specifilly targeted towards men. His works, cludg his attus and punishments of homosexualy fluenced Wtern legal tradns durg the Renaissance and beyond.
tolerance and homosexualy. Homosexualy.
THEMSTORY: THE HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE OM THE BYZANTE EMPIRE TO PRENT DAY
For a homosexual man born a peasant and raised a slave to scheme his way to the top and le an Empire sounds like a fairy tale or a Medieval drama really rememberg that did, spe all the odds sayg never would, is why Basil’s story is important for to remember today. What did the Byzant thk about homosexualy?
Comg om a background Classics, I ially assumed there’d be a large pool of evince for (and high scholarly tert ) Byzante homosexualy, but after a year of graduate-level study I’ve never seen eher scholars or historil sourc talk about for more than a sentence or two, ually to say was illegal. Are there any Byzante sourc that mentn homosexual behavr?
GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
I know that nuchs were often acced of homosexualy - though aga, I’m not sure exactly which sourc - but prumably this impli that there were beard parti volved as well? Of urse there were gay people the Byzante Empire – we were and are everywhere, no? [1] The word queen may raise a few eyebrows for some people that is equently viewed by many people, gay and straight, as havg negative nnotatns.
The term homosexual is que clil and the word gay is a very morn novatn, and so Profsor Smythe chose the word “queen” to dite those homosexual men who were very open about their same-sex sir. Bee gay people uld not be open about their same-sex sir, Byzantium was the first closeted society, Smythe nclus. But that rais another qutn- were there any homosexuals who were closeted Byzantium?
Homosexuals and exprsns of homosexual love and sire have always existed every time and place sce the begng of time. The only qutn that tly remas when studyg homosexuals durg the Byzante perd is, “were the sir and passns of the Byzant not like those of other people throughout the history of mankd?