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Christianity, social tolerance and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century / John Boswell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1980.Description: 424 p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226067114
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 76.3 .E8 B67
Contents:
Contents
"Points of departure -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Rome: the foundation -- The Christian tradition -- The scriptures -- Christians and social change -- Theological traditions -- Shifting fortunes -- The early middle ages -- The urban revival -- The triumph of Ganymede: gay literature of the high Middle Ages -- The rise of intolerance -- Social change: making enemies -- Intellectual change: men, beasts, and "nature".
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Points of departure -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Rome: the foundation -- The Christian tradition -- The scriptures -- Christians and social change -- Theological traditions -- Shifting fortunes -- The early middle ages -- The urban revival -- The triumph of Ganymede: gay literature of the high Middle Ages -- The rise of intolerance -- Social change: making enemies -- Intellectual change: men, beasts, and "nature".

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