How Did Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relations Change from the Early

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Multiple Choice

How did attitudes toward same-sex relations change from the Early to High Middle Ages?

• A)In the Early Middle Ages, Roman traditions opposing same-sex relations were adopted by European rulers, but such laws or their application diminished by the High Middle Ages.
• B)The influence of classical Greek culture in the High Middle Ages opened the era to an acceptance of same-sex relationships that previously the church had harshly condemned.
• C)Monastic life in the Early Middle Ages had an active component of same-sex relationships, but the reforms of the thirteenth century banished such practices.
• D)Authorities in the Early Middle Ages were little concerned with same-sex relationships, but in the High Middle Ages, such relationships became capital crimes.

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