The Boswell thesis : essays on Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality / [edited by] Mathew Kuefler.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

viii, 348 pages ; 24 cm

Boswell thesis / by Mathew Kuefler -- John Boswell's gay science: prolegomenon to a re-reading / by Ralph Hexter -- Touching on the past / by Carolyn Dinshaw -- Reading CSTH as a call to action: Boswell and gay-affirming movements in American Christianity / by Bernard Schlager -- "Both as a Christian and as a historian": on Boswell's ministry / by Mark D. Jordan -- Fronto + Marcus: love, friendship, letters / by Amy Richlin -- Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18 32 / by Dale B. Martin -- My sister, my spouse: woman-identified women in medieval Christianity / by E. Ann Matter -- R.W. Southern, John Boswell, and the sexuality of Anselm / by Bruce O'Brien -- Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-century France / by Mathew Kuefler -- Impossible translation: Anthony and Paul the Simple in the Historia monachorum / by Mark Masterson -- Beauty and Passion in tenth-century Córdoba / by Jeffrey A. Bowman -- Sexual mutilation and castration anxiety: a medieval perspective / by Jacqueline Murray -- Knighthood, compulsory heterosexuality, and sodomy / by Ruth Mazo Karras -- Body of Gherardesca of Pisa reclothed and resexed / by Penelope D. Johnson -- Francis of Assisi as mother, father, and androgynous figure / by Catherine M. Mooney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.