Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth CenturyUniversity of Chicago Press, 10 dec 2015 - 440 pagina's “What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture’s most familiar moral assumptions.” —Newsweek John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. “Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition.” —Michel Foucault “Revolutionary. . . .sets a standard of excellence that one would have thought impossible in the treatment of an issue so large, uncharted and vexed. . . . Improbably as it might seem, this work of unrelenting scholarship and high intellectual drama is also thoroughly entertaining.” —New York Times Book Review “One day, when all churches accept the presence and achievements of gay people with approbation instead of denial or disapproval, Boswell will in no small way be responsible.” —Gay & Lesbian Review |
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Pagina 4
... Literature, 1850–1900, ed. Brian Reade [New York, 1970], pp. 158– 93). Raymond de Becker's L'érotisme d'en face (Paris, 1964; trans. M. Crosland and A. Daventry as The Other Face of Love [New York, 1969]) is pleasant and readable and ...
... Literature, 1850–1900, ed. Brian Reade [New York, 1970], pp. 158– 93). Raymond de Becker's L'érotisme d'en face (Paris, 1964; trans. M. Crosland and A. Daventry as The Other Face of Love [New York, 1969]) is pleasant and readable and ...
Pagina 17
... literature to remind the living of the fate of the dead, no liturgical commemorations of times of crisis and suffering. Relatively few gay people today are aware of the great variety of positions in which time has placed their kind, and ...
... literature to remind the living of the fate of the dead, no liturgical commemorations of times of crisis and suffering. Relatively few gay people today are aware of the great variety of positions in which time has placed their kind, and ...
Pagina 18
... literature as a female companion to Socrates”— but the heavy hand of the censor was also evident. In a manuscript of Ovid's Art of Love, for example, a phrase which originally read, “A boy's love appealed to me less” was emended by a ...
... literature as a female companion to Socrates”— but the heavy hand of the censor was also evident. In a manuscript of Ovid's Art of Love, for example, a phrase which originally read, “A boy's love appealed to me less” was emended by a ...
Pagina 20
... literature to designate a slave officially employed for sexual release. Criticism of a freed person's being employed in this capacity is no more an objection to homosexuality than criticism of female prostitution is an objection to ...
... literature to designate a slave officially employed for sexual release. Criticism of a freed person's being employed in this capacity is no more an objection to homosexuality than criticism of female prostitution is an objection to ...
Pagina 25
... literature, and religious myths were all filled with the homosexual exploits of such archetypally masculine figures as Zeus, Hercules, Achilles, et al.” Plato argued that pairs of homosexual lovers would make the best soldiers ...
... literature, and religious myths were all filled with the homosexual exploits of such archetypally masculine figures as Zeus, Hercules, Achilles, et al.” Plato argued that pairs of homosexual lovers would make the best soldiers ...
Inhoudsopgave
II The Christian Tradition | 89 |
III Shifting Fortunes | 167 |
IV The Rise of Intolerance | 267 |
Lexicography and Saint Paul | 335 |
Texts and Translations | 355 |
Frequently Cited Works | 403 |
Index of Greek Terms | 411 |
General Index | 413 |
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western ... John Boswell Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western ... John Boswell Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
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