5/23/2023 0 Comments Boswell homosexuality![]() ![]() ![]() Yet a lot of that scholarship has pushed back against CSTH, critiquing his analytical categories and terminology and his use of source material. ![]() Many younger scholars were inspired by his writings, and much work has been produced on the history of gender and sexuality since Boswell's death. From the perspective of several decades later, both Boswell's hopes and fears have been realised, to varying extents. In his conclusion to Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, John Boswell states that as such little work had been done on this topic before-which, at the time of this book's publication was certainly true-"the writer on this subject cannot hope to avoid leading his readers down many wrong paths or, occasionally, coming to a dead end", and begs the reader's forbearance in the hopes that future scholars will build on his work. ![]()
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