John Boswell
J ohn Boswell (1947-94) was the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure , The Kindness of Strangers , and Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe .
J ohn Boswell (1947-94) was the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure , The Kindness of Strangers , and Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe . See less
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John Boswell book reviews
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Gay Issues in the Middle Ages
by Andrew D, Feb 14, 2013
A thorough, academic study which is well researched on a topic that has hitherto scarcely been examined by the academic world. Boswell's detailed scholarship throws quite a bit of light into the ... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
Amazing value
Beautiful Everyman Library edition. Green cloth-bound octavo size with sewn-in signature binding. Page count of 1000+ permits type-face large enough for easy reading. For a book selling at around ... Read More
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Finding what you're looking for
The ceremonies author Boswell describes can be described as "brother making" not "sexual-partner making."
His theory, finding what he sincerely wanted to find, has been debunked by both historians
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