ABSTRACT
The council of Nablus was convened by Patriach Warmund of Jerusalem and King Baldwin II of Jerusalem in 1120. Its canons are the only Latin ecclesiastical legislation surviving from the First Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1187), a Crusader state established after the First Crusade's capture of Jerusalem. The canons show a substantial interest in sexual offences in the context of intercultural contact, and the severe penalties prescribed here for same-sex sexual activities may be a turning point towards a more severely repressive attitude to same-sex sex in the later medieval period.
