![]() "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality", still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. The Boswell Thesis is a thoughtful and interesting reflection on the impact and place in history of John Boswells bold and ambitious Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (hereafter CSTH), pub- lished 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. 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 twenty-five years ago. ![]() 2: Texts and Translations Frequently Cited Works Index of Greek Terms General Index.11: Intellectual Change: Men, Beasts, and "Nature". ![]() 9: The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Ages. ![]()
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