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About John Boswell. John Eastburn Boswell (1947-1994) graduated from William & Mary in 1969, received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1975, and began his teaching career that same year at Yale, teaching there until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1994. A distinguished scholar and author, Boswell was also a gifted and committed ...
Boswell was undoubtedly brilliant: a full professor at Yale by thirty-five, a polymath who spoke and read more than a dozen languages, winner of teaching and National Book awards, and a scholar whose work uncovered the long history of queer tolerance and acceptance within Christianity. But John Boswell—Jeb, to those who knew him well—was ...
Biography. John Eastburn Boswell (1947-1994) ranks as one of the most significant scholars in gay and lesbian studies. His career as an historian at Yale University spanned 20 years and he profoundly influenced a generation of students in the fields of medieval history, religious studies, and queer studies. A convert to Roman Catholicism as a ...
Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."—Michel Foucault 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 ...
May 1, 2024 · Boswell is interested particularly in the history of European (Ashkenazi) Jewry, largely because this is his area of expertise; this is, however, a limited view of what constitutes “Jewish history.” 51 It is crucial that we return to the role of history and our categories of study in this political moment, but I do not mean to suggest that there is a uniformity to “Jewish” or “trans ...
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 ...
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Jul 25, 2024 · 4. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. November 1, 2005, University Of Chicago Press. Paperback in English. 0226067114 9780226067117.
