Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

"John Boswell restores one's faith in scholarship as the union of erudition, analysis and moral vision. I would not hesitate to call this book revolutionary, for it tells of things heretofore unimagined and sets a standard of excellence that one would have thought impossible in the treatment of an issue so large, uncharted and vexed.... Both of Professor Boswell's central findings are completely at odds with all our perceptions about Western civilization. But the book's argument is of such richness--its empirical base so broad, its reasoning so fierce--that it succeeds in making one think the unthinkable. It forces us to re-examine even the most fixed notions about our moral and cultural heritage."Boswell, John is the author of 'Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century', published 2005 under ISBN 9780226067117 and ISBN 0226067114.