Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?

For centuries, literature from Islamic regions, especially Iran, celebrated male homoerotic love as a symbol of beauty, mysticism and spiritual longing. These attitudes were particularly pronounced ...
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Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas

The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...