Three historians explore the legacy of John Boswell’s landmark text.
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Linked in Orgasm? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
Robert Mills reflects on the impact of Boswell’s work on his own gay and scholarly identities.
Where are the Women? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
Boswell’s ‘Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality” often excludes women from its analysis of medieval same-sex relations.
‘The Inevitable Errors of First Explorations’? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
What qualities have kept Boswell’s “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality” monumental to the field of medieval history?
‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow
While many vowesses broke their chastity vows, Margaret Singleton’s case was different and remains an unsolved mystery.
Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature
Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.
The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.
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