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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

By John , Boswell

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press, Boswell, John.
ISBN
0226067114, 9780226067117, 9780226067100, 0226067106, 9781282069619, 1282069616
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35205724 bytes)
Pages
460\460
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:57
History;Nonfiction;Religion;LGBT;Christianity;GLBT

Description

John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted (legal, literary, theological, artistic, and scientific) make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. The product of ten years of research and analysis of records in a dozen languages, this book opens up a new area of historical inquiry and helps elucidate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.

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