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The Boswell Thesis
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Mathew Kuefler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Arguing that neither the Bibl
Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Claudia Rapp
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth
The Kindness of Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: John Boswell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Vintage

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The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Mark D. Jordan
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this reexamination of what it means to have a tradition, Catholic and otherwise, Mark D. Jordan offers a powerful and provocative study of the sin of erotic
Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Katherine Allen Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: BRILL

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This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segreg