The Body of Gerardesca of Pisa Reclothed and Resexedġ6.Since its publication in 1980, John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality has dominated conversations about the history of sexuality. Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomyġ5. Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspectiveġ4. Beauty and Passion in Tenth-Century Córdobaġ3. Impossible Translation: Antony and Paul the Simple in the Historia Monachorumġ2. Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century Franceġ1. Southern, John Boswell, and the Sexuality of Anselmġ0. My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianityĩ. Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32Ĩ. Fronto + Marcus: Love, Friendship, Lettersħ.
"Both as a Christian and as a Historian": On Boswell’s MinistryĦ. Reading CSTH as a Call to Action: Boswell and Gay-Affirming Movements in American Christianityĥ. John Boswell’s Gay Science: Prolegomenon to a Re-ReadingĤ. Read More about The Boswell Thesis Read Less about The Boswell ThesisĢ. Also included are discussions of Boswell’s career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians and his role in academic debates between essentialists and social constructionists.Įlegant and thought-provoking, this collection provides a fitting twenty-fifth anniversary tribute to the incalculable influence of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality and its author. The essays in this magnificent volume examine a variety of aspects of Boswell’s interpretation of events in the development of sexuality from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, including a Roman emperor’s love letters to another man suspicions of sodomy among medieval monks, knights, and crusaders and the gender-bending visions of Christian saints and mystics. The Boswell Thesis brings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book’s immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. Twenty-five years later, the aftershocks still reverberate. Arguing that neither the Bible nor the Christian tradition was nearly as hostile to homoeroticism as was generally thought, its initial publication sent shock waves through university classrooms, gay communities, and religious congregations.
Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality.
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