Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

Description

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.

Excerpt

Between the beginning of the Christian Era and the end of the Middle Ages, European attitudes toward a number of minorities underwent profound transformations.

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Other Editions

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth CenturyHardcoverUniversity of Chicago Press1980-01-01
• Christianity, social tolerance and homosexualityUniversity of Chicago1981-01-01
• Christianisme, tolérance sociale et homosexualitéPaperbackGallimard1985-01-01
• Cristianesimo, tolleranza, omosessualitaLeonardo1989-01-01
• Cristianismo, Tolerancia Social y HomosexualidadPaperbackPeninsular Publishing Company2004-06-01
• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and HomosexualityPaperbackUniversity Of Chicago Press2005-11-01