Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
by John Boswell
foreword by Mark D. Jordan
University of Chicago Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-226-34522-2 | eISBN: 978-0-226-34536-9 (all)
Library of Congress Classification HQ76.3.E8B67 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 241.664094
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The landmark book that launched the field of gay and lesbian studies
John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published in 1980. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history.
This edition offers a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan that reminds current readers, scholars, and students that Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published in 1980. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history.
This edition offers a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan that reminds current readers, scholars, and students that Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
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