And it turns out that the picture is nothing like what we expected. For the first time in the debate over homosexuality, John Boswell has gone back to the sources and combed through an immense amount of writings by Latin, Greek and Early Medieval authors to find out what they really had to say. This is rightly called ‘a truly ground-breaking work’. Intellectual Change: Men, Beasts, and “Nature” The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Agesġ1. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure, The Kindness of Strangers, and Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe.ĩ. The Skyler Foxe Mysteries by Haley WalshĬhristianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: (Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century), by John Boswell.Īuthor bio: John Boswell (1947-94) was the A.2½ stars 3½ Stars 4 stars 4½ Stars 18th Century 19th Century 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's Advent Calendar Age of Sail Alex Beecroft America Charlie Cochrane ebook England Erastes Essential Reads Fiction five stars novella Regency Reviews short stories three stars Victorian Western World War II
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