Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century / John Boswell
Edition
Paperback edition
Published
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [1980]
xviii, 424 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents
Introduction -- Definitions -- Rome: the foundation -- The scriptures -- Christians and social change -- Theological traditions -- The early Middle Ages -- The urban revival -- The triumph of Ganymede: gay literature of the high Middle Ages -- Social change: making enemies -- Intellectual change: men, beasts, and "nature" -- Conclusions
