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Names: Rollo, David, translator. | Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?–1072. Liber Gomorrhianus. English. 2022. | Alanus, de Insulis, –1202. De planctu naturae. English.
Title: Medieval writings on sex between men : Peter Damian’s The book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The plaint of nature / introduced and translated from the Latin by David Rollo.
Other titles: Explorations in medieval culture ; 19.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Explorations in medieval culture, 2352–0299 ; 19 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021062481 (print) | LCCN 2021062482 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004429659 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004507326 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?–1072. Liber Gomorrhianus. | Alanus, de Insulis, –1202. De planctu naturae. | Homosexuality—Early works to 1800. | Homosexuality in literature.
Classification: LCC HQ76.25 .M43 2022 (print) | LCC HQ76.25 (ebook) | DDC 306.76/6—dc23/eng/20220107
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