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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
John Boswell
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Description for Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Paperback. Num Pages: 442 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HRAX; HRC; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. .
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 thirty-five years ago. 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. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. ... Read more
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 thirty-five years ago. 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. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
442
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226345222
SKU
V9780226345222
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About John Boswell
John Boswell (1947-94) was the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure, The Kindness of Strangers, and Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.
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