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Attitudes Toward Homosexuality - [23 Jan 2009]
Boswell, John. "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century", (1980) University of Chicago Press, 2005 (reprint). Attitudes toward Homosexuality Amos...
from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century", (1980) University...
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Excellent Read even 27 years later - [04 Jan 2009]
John Boswell's work still stands as one of the foundational works of social history in the last three decades. While subsequent scholarship has further illuminated the topic, I still feel the breadth and depth of this work makes it time well spent. As...
last three decades. While subsequent scholarship has further illuminated the topic, I still...
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3.5 Stars for a Good, But Not Excellent Start Into the Issue - [21 May 2008]
I read the 1981 edition of the 1980 book. With 448 pages the book appears to be exhaustive. However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated historic documents and we are left with 338 pages. These in turn have...
However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated...
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3.5 Stars for a Good, But Not Excellent Start Into the Issue - [21 May 2008]
I read the 1981 edition of the 1980 book. With 448 pages the book appears to be exhaustive. However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated historic documents and we are left with 338 pages. These in turn have...
However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated...
www.amazon.com/review/R2QKG8FY2...
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Whatever.. - [25 May 2007]
Whatever side of the fence you sit, or, indeed, whether on the fence, one thing is certain -- you'll either love or hate this work. It is a thesis. It is a mind-opening presentation of facts and ideas. It is worth reading and begs owning. Whether for ...
-- you'll either love or hate this work. It is a thesis. It is a mind-opening presentation...
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Required Reading But Not The Final Word - [01 Jan 2007]
This impressive book, winner of the National Book Award, is an incisive, passionate piece of advocacy scholarship concerning the development of anti-homosexual attitudes in the pre-modern era. It's required reading mostly because of the arguments that...
of advocacy scholarship concerning the development of anti-homosexual attitudes in the pre-...
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I enjoy this.. - [09 Oct 2005]
I enjoy this..It's very good and phenomenal in that it's the first work of it's kind really. It covers the Greeks to Aquinas. John Boswell is a cutie. This has a wonderfully attractive cover, as well as the original one which is no longer shown of a second...
It covers the Greeks to Aquinas. John Boswell is a cutie. This has a wonderfully attractive...
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Rhetorical tour de force, lacking in substantiation. - [04 Jan 2005]
Boswell's work is an impressive volume which has all the appearance of a powerful academic treatise, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the attitudes and practices of the early Christian peroid vis-a-vis homosexuality. Unfortunately, the central...
treatise, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the attitudes and practices of the...
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A bold, but flawed, pioneering work - [29 Sep 2003]
It's been more than twenty years since John Boswell's pioneering work on the history of homosexuality first appeared. Boswell argues that originally homosexuality was tolerated and admired in the urban world of the Roman Empire. Contrary to what one may...
first appeared. Boswell argues that originally homosexuality was tolerated and ...
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Historic - [16 Aug 2003]
To call this book historic is not an overstatement. The breadth and depth of the scholarship is staggering and the sheer wealth of the material overwhelming. Never have I read such a detailed argument based on such familiarity and mastery of the material...
is staggering and the sheer wealth of the material overwhelming. Never have I read such ...
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