num_pages: 424
description: John 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 (legal, literary, theological, artistic, and scientific) 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.
language: English
title: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
titlecomplete: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
genres: Christianity, LGBT, Gay, History, Religion, Theology, Sociology, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 877
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award
category: History, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Stonewall Book Award, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: University of Chicago Press