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:During the Renaissance of the twelfth century ideas flowed into Catholic Europe from Spain and other Muslim lands, often through Jewish translators. While Christians languished in ignorance and proscribed homosexuality, Muslims kept philosophy (and pederasty) alive: al-Kindi (d. 8701, Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna of Baghdad (d. 1037), and Averroes of Cordoba (d. 1198)-knowing nearly all of Aristotle's and several of Plato's extant works.

:During the Renaissance of the twelfth century ideas flowed into Catholic Europe from Spain and other Muslim lands, often through Jewish translators. While Christians languished in ignorance and proscribed homosexuality, Muslims kept philosophy (and pederasty) alive: al-Kindi (d. 8701, Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna of Baghdad (d. 1037), and Averroes of Cordoba (d. 1198)-knowing nearly all of Aristotle's and several of Plato's extant works.

He has almost nothing to say about the great developments in science, metaphysics and logic that began with the Renaissance of the twelfth century, continued through the thirteenth and fourteenth century, and which (in the hands of late scholastics like Francisco Suarez and Domingo Soto) was the foundation of early modern philosophy and science.

He has almost nothing to say about the great developments in science, metaphysics and logic that began with the Renaissance of the twelfth century, continued through the thirteenth and fourteenth century, and which (in the hands of late scholastics like Francisco Suarez and Domingo Soto) was the foundation of early modern philosophy and science, apart from some brief remarks about Anselm.

St. Anselm, promoted from Abbot of Bec in Normandy to Archbishop of Canterbury in 1110, recommended light penalties, especially for young sodomitical clerks in opposition to the growing homophobia fanned by Peter Damian. As a philosopher Anselm logically explained why God became man (Cur deus homo).

:St. Anselm, promoted from Abbot of Bec in Normandy to Archbishop of Canterbury in 1110, recommended light penalties, especially for young sodomitical clerks in opposition to the growing homophobia fanned by Peter Damian. As a philosopher Anselm logically explained why God became man (Cur deus homo).

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