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Beloved by students, Boswell, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, was posthumously awarded the Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 1995, the year after he died of complications from AIDS at the age of forty-seven. Not a Tame Lion (Craig Bettendorf, 2022) If the inspiration for the
Sep 21, 2023 · The film opens with the simple statement: “A person’s life is often defined by the times in which they live,” followed by, “This was certainly true of John Boswell.”. Katherine Rowe, president of William and Mary (where Boswell attended as an undergraduate), said in the film, “Boswell’s work showed historians that what we thought ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Boswell spends some time delving into the relationship between the 4th-century Ausonius, a Roman poet living in Bordeaux, France, and his pupil Saint Paulinus, later the Bishop of Nola.
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Feb 20, 2024 · Such was the research unearthed by John Boswell, a groundbreaking historian whose life was tragically cut short in 1994 by AIDS. Boswell is the subject of a new documentary “ Not A Tame Lion,” which tells the story of his impact on the LGBTQ+ community in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.
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May 1, 2024 · Boswell’s footnote suggests that he did not consult Borges directly but rather translated the passage from Foucault’s French (Boswell, “Jews, Bicycle Riders, and Gay People,” 226n35). This citation from Foucault is yet another example that undermines the misconception that Boswell and Foucault were diametrically opposed to one another, which has to do with the reception history of each ...
