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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His career as an historian at Yale University spanned 20 years and he profoundly influenced a generation of students in the fields of medieval history, religious studies, and queer studies.Ī convert to Roman Catholicism as a teenager and an observant Catholic until his untimely death at the age of 47, Boswell is perhaps best known for his 1980 book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, which won the 1981 American Book Award for history. John Eastburn Boswell (1947-1994) ranks as one of the most significant scholars in gay and lesbian studies. ![]()
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