Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

John Boswell

424 pages • first pub 1980 (view editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ religion challenging informative slow-paced
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The history of homosexuality in the Christian West is not, as one might expect, a monotonous tale of unremitting hostility to "the sin of sodomy," punctuated by trials and burnings. Rather, it is a story of centuries when Catholic Europe accepted ...

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