Between the beginning of the Christian Era and the end of the Middle Ages, European attitudes toward a number of minorities underwent profound transformations.
An edition of Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
(1980)
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
by John Boswell
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From back cover: 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 ... 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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Table of Contents
Illustrations
Page xi
Abbreviations
Page xiii
Preface
Page xv
I.
Points of Departure
Page 1
1.
Introduction
Page 3
2.
Definitions
Page 41
3.
Rome: The Foundation
Page 61
II.
The Christian Tradition
Page 89
4.
The Scriptures
Page 91
5.
Christians and Social Change
Page 119
6.
Theological Traditions
Page 137
III.
Shifting Fortunes
Page 167
7.
The Early Middle Ages
Page 169
8.
The Urban Revival
Page 207
9.
The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Ages
Page 243
IV.
The Rise of Intolerance
Page 267
10.
Social Change: Making Enemies
Page 269
11.
Intellectual Change: Men, Beasts and "Nature"
Page 303
12.
Conclusions
Page 333
Appendix 1.
Lexicography and Saint Paul
Page 335
Appendix 2.
Texts and Translations
Page 355
Frequently Cited Works
Page 403
Index of Greek Terms
Page 411
General Index
Page 413
Edition Notes
Classifications
Contributors
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