Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Subtitle: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
By: John Boswell.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780226067100
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 403-409.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: label: I
title: Points of Departure; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Definitions
pagenum: 41; label: 3
title: Rome: the foundation
pagenum: 61; label: II
title: The Christian Tradition; label: 4
title: The scriptures
pagenum: 91; label: 5
title: Christians and social change
pagenum: 119; label: 6
title: Theological traditions
pagenum: 137; label: III
title: Shifting Fortunes; label: 7
title: The early Middle Ages
pagenum: 169; label: 8
title: The urban revival
pagenum: 207; label: 9
title: The triumph of Ganymede: gay literature of the high Middle Ages
pagenum: 243; label: IV
title: The Rise of Intolerance; label: 10
title: Social change: making enemies
pagenum: 269; label: 11
title: Intellectual change: men, beasts, and "nature"
pagenum: 303; label: 12
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 333