Was homosexuality punishable by death in the middle ages? I can't

Because you didn't leave descendants.

Passing shit along to your descendants was a big deal back then. No family, no kids.

Also, a lot of homosexuality that was "punished" back then was older men preying on younger boys.

If you were a peasant

>>2041284
look up sodomy instead of homosex

>>2041287
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>2041284
No, they were treated like royalty. The fact that they are nicknamed flamers or faggots (something that is burned) today is pure coincidence.

>>2041284
They didn't exactly have a law against homosexuality. What they did have a law against was sodomy. Which was punishable death.
Laws specifically for homosexuality would come later.

>>2044234
Tacticus explains that ancient Germanic peoples use to throw gays into bogs to execute them, "The death penalty is reserved for two kinds of capital offenses: military treason or desertion was punished by hanging, and moral infamy (cowardice and homosexuality[9]) was punished by throwing the condemned into a bog."

Also look up European "bog bodies" which are corpses of homosexuals who were executed and executed in such a matter in order to make sure they could never be reincarnated.

Because of this it is VERY likely that german and european peoples during the dark ages kept some of these ancient traditions and held distaste for homosexuals.

>>2044339
But vikings fugged boys.

In fact, the norse seem to have had views similar to those of the better known mediterreneans - being the catcher was weakness, being the pitcher was fine.

>>2044378
Vikings arent Germanic, they are Nordic. Also rape is an assertion of dominance and a way to humiliate your enemy, its not necessarily an expression of sexuality

Not much more of a shame than to be sodomized by someone stronger than you who hates everything you stand for id imagine. Then again people now a days probably get off to shit like that.

>>2041284
Yes but it would have been something rarely punished because it's not like homosexuality is common or in the open. So evidence of trials are rare to nonexistent.

Im 100% sure that gays werent allowed in the bible becuase of poopy dicks. the book is basically hygenics 101.

>>2044609
>Vikings arent Germanic, they are Nordic
literally kys

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>>2044609
>an assertion of dominance
Sure, that's what you tell yourself

>>2044609
>Vikings arent Germanic, they are Nordic.
Jesus Christ

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>>2047150
>>2047308
>>2047314

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>>2044609
>Vikings aren't Germanic

>>2041284
>I can't find any sources on it.
really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_homosexuality

The short answer is yes, but it was very rarely carried out, mostly because the offence happened in private and was very hard to prove.

Also, I don't know about the rest of Europe but juries in England were generally reluctant to convict people on capital charges unless there was actual violence involved (for example, juries would routinely under-value the price of stolen goods to avoid handing out a death sentence). See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pratt_and_John_Smith
This case is a lot later than the medieval period, but if anything English law was harsher in the early 19th century than it has been at any other period. And it was still a surprise to most people that then men were actually executed for sodomy; even the magistrate who arrested them requested a commutation.

Prosecutions for sodomy, like prosecutions for witchcraft and other moral crimes, generally followed periods of social unrest. e.g. the case of Giovanni di Giovanni, who was executed for sodomy in the moral hysteria that gripped Florence aftermath of the black death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_di_Giovanni

The other reason for sodomy prosecutions was political revenge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hungerford,_1st_Baron_Hungerford_of_Heytesbury

Other than in times of moral panic or for political reasons, sodomy seems to have been a rarely prosecuted crime.

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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_medieval_Europe

tidr: For the most part homosexuality was punishable by death during the "high middle ages". During the "low middle ages" the Church had bigger fish to fry