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'''The Middle Ages''', or Medieval period, also called the post-classical era, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. | '''The Middle Ages''', or Medieval period, also called the post-classical era, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. | ||
==The dark ages of boylove== | ==The dark ages of boylove== | ||
This entry is intended to be an overview of boylove in the Medieval period and the articles in [[:Category:Boylove in the middle ages]]. During the middle ages, [[homosexuality]] and [[boylove]] were not often differentiated in literature. These were very secretive times due to the influence of the Catholic church. | This entry is intended to be an overview of boylove in the Medieval period and the articles in [[:Category:Boylove in the middle ages]]. During the middle ages, [[homosexuality]] and [[boylove]] were not often differentiated in literature. These were very secretive times due to the strong influence of the Catholic church. | ||
==Europe== | ==Europe== | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 5 November 2013
The Middle Ages, or Medieval period, also called the post-classical era, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
The dark ages of boylove
This entry is intended to be an overview of boylove in the Medieval period and the articles in Category:Boylove in the middle ages. During the middle ages, homosexuality and boylove were not often differentiated in literature. These were very secretive times due to the strong influence of the Catholic church.
Europe
Notes
Papst Sixtus IV. (1414 - 1484) - according to Stefano Infessura he was homosexual and made his boys to cardinals.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was he boylover it seems. 1490 he took the 10- year-old Giacomo into his home and they lived together until Leonardos death.
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) was a boylover too it seems, but it is not as sure as Leonardo.
America (Pre-Columbian era)
North America
Certain Native American groups throughout North America prized boys as lovers. Of the Koniagas of Kodiak Island and the Thinkleets, we read from missionary accounts that: 'The most repugnant of all their practices is that of male concubinage. A Kodiak mother will select her handsomest and most promising boy, and dress and rear him as a girl, teaching him only domestic duties, keeping him at women's work, associating him with women and girls, in order to render his effeminacy complete. Arriving at the age of ten or fifteen years, he is married to some wealthy man who regards such a companion as a great acquisition. These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans' (the authorities quoted being Holmberg, Langsdorff, Billing, Choris, Lisiansky and Marchand). The same is the case in Nutka Sound and the Aleutian Islands, where 'male concubinage obtains throughout, but not to the same extent as amongst the Koniagas.' The male concubines have their beards carefully plucked out as soon as the face-hair begins to grow, and their chins are tattooed like those of the women. In California the first missionaries found the same practice, the youths being called Joya."[1]
Central America
Though early Mayans are thought to have been strongly antagonistic to same-sex relationships, later Mayan states employed pederastic practices. Their introduction was ascribed to the god Chin. One aspect was that of the father procuring a younger lover for his son. Juan de Torquemada mentions that if the (younger) boy was seduced by a stranger, the penalty was equivalent to that for adultery. Bernal Diaz reported statues of male pairs making love in the temples at Cape Catoche, Yucatan.[2] [3]
References
- ↑ (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Motras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages). (R. F. Burton, Terminal Essay)
- ↑ Pete Sigal, "The Politicization of Pederasty among the Colonial Yucatecan Maya" in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 1-24
- ↑ Wikipedia Pederasty
