Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century
John Boswell (Author)
eBook, English, 2015
Thirty-fifth anniversary edition View all formats and editions
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2015
History
1 online resource (xxvi, 424 pages .)
9780226067148, 9780226345369, 0226067149, 022634536X
944156277
Points of departure
Introduction
Definitions
Rome: the foundation
The Christian tradition
The scriptures
Christians and social change
Theological traditions
Shifting fortunes
The early middle ages
The urban revival
The triumph of Ganymede: gay literature of the high Middle Ages
The rise of intolerance
Social change: making enemies
Intellectual change: men, beasts, and "nature."