A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages

by Matt Cook, Robert Mills, Randolph Trumbach

The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846450020
• ISBN13: 9781846450020
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.2"