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	John Boswell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Boswell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University.
		Boswell made many detailed translations of these rites in his book The Marriage of Likeness, and claimed that one mass gay wedding occurred only a couple of centuries ago in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the cathedral seat of the pope as Bishop of Rome.
		Boswell's writings touched off detailed debate in The Irish Times some years ago and the article which triggered off the debate, a major feature in the "Rite and Reason" religion column in the paper by a respected Irish historian and religious commentator, has been reproduced on many websites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Boswell (575 words)

	SPP CD Review: Richard Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Boswell's musical exploration of this often overdone emotion brings such a breath of fresh air that I won't be as cynical next time I see a handsome man on a CD cover bearing a simple title.
		Boswell's use of rubato makes it seem like he is speaking as well as playing from the heart, and is a big factor in why his music feels so personal.
		Boswell's years of classical training show in his masterful playing, but his composing style is always fresh and contemporary.
	www.solopianopublications.com /reviews/boswell.htm (1289 words)

	Gay Marriage: Reimagining Church History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		That is not Boswell's approach: he portrays his work as an investigation that by patient reconstruction and analysis restores the record of gay couples of the past whose existence was heretofore hidden by the prudery of an oppressive church and culture.
		Boswell actually cites the term "brother," used to refer to fellow Christians in the early centuries of the Church, to bolster his case that the word was metaphorical and therefore likely to mean "lover"-when in the early Christian context it signifies simply belonging to Christ's family, one of the adopted sons of God.
		Boswell is in any case chiefly interested in supposed homosexual unions, and he discusses Christian marriage mainly in order to contrast it with same-sex unions entered into solely for the sake of love.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9411/articles/darling.html (3491 words)

	John Boswell - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 - December 24, 1994), a gay historian, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University.
		Boswell made many detailed translations of these rites in his book The Marriage of Likeness, and claimed that one mass gay wedding occurred only a couple of centuries ago in the basilica of St.
		John Lateran, the cathedral seat of the pope as Bishop of Rome.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/John_Boswell (398 words)

	James Boswell - a guide
		When a great part of his personal papers were discovered in the 1920s, the world already knew him as the author of the much praised biography of Dr.
		Some of them are not all that well-known, and it is the aim of this website to create an index of all those people, so that the readers of Boswell can acquire an even better understanding of his life and of society from the 1760s and onwards.
		Boswell's Ancestors is a small table of 3 generations of his ancestors.
	www.jamesboswell.info (429 words)

	John Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints.
		John Boswell (1947-1994) was the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure, The Kindness of Strangers, and Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.
		In The Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/boswell_john.htm (608 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It invites us to view gayness not as something that, like eye-color or an earring, one might have in splendid isolation, but as something, like loving and caring, which is a relational property, a connection between persons, a human bonding, one in need of tendance and social concern.
		Boswell's writings possessed the real-world virtues of candor, boldness, and courage that are usually the first things to go in an institution as bureaucratic as the academy.
		Further, for years Boswell had told people, including me, that his long illness was "just" Lyme's Disease, not AIDS, and so I was morally deflated to read that the cause of death indeed was AIDS.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/media/print/richard.mohr/1995/john.boswell.and.gay.generations-01.95 (685 words)

	CABARET HOTLINE BREAKING NEWS - Babbie Green and John Boswell Partner For Two Nights at THE GARDENIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Babbie Green and John Boswell will be appearing for two nights in August, on Friday & Saturday, the 16th & 17th at 9:00 pm at THE GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA - 323-467-7444).
		Boswell at the piano and he will be joining her in song.
		Boswell, with 6 CDs of his own music on Hearts of Space Records, has won two GLAMA Awards, as male artist and pop instrumentalist; the UCLA Frank Sinatra Award for pop instrumentalist, and has been musical director and pianist for Andy Williams, Judy Collins, and Bob Newhart.
	www.svhamstra.com /NEWS2002/News2002GreenBoswell.shtml (356 words)

	Death comes to noted Gay academics John Boswell and Warren Johansson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Handsome, and a charming speaker, John Boswell was well known and admired among academics and non-scholars alike.
		Boswell's latest book had reported church documents showing pairs of men, and pairs of women, had received church ceremonies of union until about the 14th century (travelers in fact had reported Orthodox priests performing such public marital rites in mountain villages of Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia as late as the 19th century).
		Boswell, still boyishly cute, died at 47, on December 24, 1994 at the Yale Infirmary in New Haven of AIDS complications.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/oneigla/bulletin/Profiles/BosJohan.html (768 words)

	Johnsons: Next Generation Theory (Boswell and Cornwell)
		There is historical documentation of John Boswell Johnson who was the son of Thomas (Minor) Johnson and Jane Chapman.
		This John Boswell was born in 1770 and died in Sumner Co., TN in 1815.
		John Boswell Johnson was born in England and came to the Colonies (Hanover Co., VA) about 1765.
	www.geocities.com /jenbucha/nextgen.html (574 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Boswell, John
		John Eastburn Boswell was one of the late twentieth century's most influential historians of homosexuality and author of one of the first book-length histories on the subject.
		Many historians of gay life regarded Boswell's history of "gay people" in European antiquity as anachronistic, especially since it stood deliberately at odds with a growing scholarly consensus that social identities grounded in sexual practice had their origins only in the late nineteenth century.
		Boswell was frequently painted by his colleagues in the field as the essentialist par excellence.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/boswell_j.html (1071 words)

	PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY: John Boswell Page
		Boswell, John, The Church and the Homosexual: An Historical Perspective, (Keynote address at Dignity's 4th Biennial Convention, Sept. 1979), repr.
		John Boswell was often criticized as an "advocacy scholar".
		In her peroration, Dinshaw expressed her own interest in the Boswell archive and her distance from it: she was interested in its documentation of the foundational period of LGBT studies, but distant from Boswell's work, both as a Lesbian and as one committed to constructionist non-foundational history.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/index-bos.html (7778 words)

	Reflections of John Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Boswell has a nice even balance of soft piano instrumentation to smooth jazz mixes making for a pleasurable listen.
		So, here I have the opportunity to revisit the music of John Boswell and without a doubt there is some good music present on this "best of" disc.
		This track and the previously mentioned seem to reflect the strengths of Boswell who appears to be more creative and adventurous with his smooth jazz explorations.
	www.windandwire.com /july/reflections.htm (496 words)

	Same-Sex "Marriage": Appendix A, Brief Commentary on John Boswell's "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Boswell then analyzes several church ceremonies acknowledging unions "in the spirit" of Serge and Bacchus between lay Christian "brothers." That these ceremonies existed, Boswell asserts, strongly signifies that the unions recognized were "probably, sometimes" sexual.
		Boswell describes (and later in an Appendix quotes in full) a "Serge/Bacchus"-modelled ceremony recognizing a spiritual brotherhood between two laymen covenanted to engage in a religious quest of some difficulty.
		Boswell argues that the relationship being celebrated must have been "sexual," because the ceremony was prohibited to monks, though not to the laity.
	www.leaderu.com /marco/marriage/gaymarriage7.html (1043 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Boswell attached to answer John Legge of plea of trespass, whereof John Legge in own person complains that Boswell, 2 Dec, 26 Hen.
		On dorse, jurors assessed damages for John, at a hundred something, that John Boswell be taken, and present here in court.
		John Bylawe complained of John Boswell of plea of trespass, upon which bailiff ordered to attach his goods,e tc.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/hgarrett/researchfiles/pro2/sc193'17.pro (257 words)

	John Ray Boswell, Master Sergeant, United States Marine Corps
		Boswell, a career Marine and Japanese prisoner of war, died September 23, 2003, at the age of 83.
		Boswell was born in Florida and joined the Marines at 17 in 1937, before World War II.
		On May 6, 1942, Boswell was taken prisoner by the Japanese, and during 40 months in captivity went from 200 to 110 pounds.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jrboswell.htm (472 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		(L.) John Boswell was indicted for that he, together with 2 other persons, to the jury unknown, on Frederick Lenard did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, on the king's highway, and stealing from his person half a guinea and 33 s.
		Boswell said to the Dutchman d - n your eyes, I have got none of your money; the Dutchman said I want my money, my money, he had a stick in his hand and lifted it up to Boswell, who was stooping down; he said let him beat on, let him beat on.
		Boswell was still stooping, I wonder'd what it was for; at last I saw him take a knife out of his breeches pocket, which, I'll assure you, I thought was a cutlass or a hanger, I saw it glisten; so I and the other young woman ran out at the back door.
	www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_units/1750s/t17560115-12.html (4661 words)

	AEGiS-AP: John Boswell, Yale Historian Dies at 47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- John E. Boswell, former chairman of Yale's history department who theorized that homosexual marriages were celebrated liturgically in the Middle Ages, died at age 47 of AIDS complications.
		Boswell died Friday at the Yale infirmary, said Jerry Hart, a friend who provided the cause of death.
		Boswell joined the Yale faculty in 1975 as an assistant professor and was appointed a full professor in 1982.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/1994/AP941217.html (521 words)

	The Public Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		And, of course, Boswell is routinely invoked in Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and other studies urging that the churches should at last overcome their "homophobia" and be "accepting" of homosexuals and homosexuality.
		Episcopalian bishop John Spong, a prominent champion of the gay movement, is not alone in claiming that Paul was a repressed and frustrated homosexual.
		Boswell seems not to have noticed it, but the passage makes clear that, for both Romans and Christians, it was assumed that to charge someone with fellatio was to defame him.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9403/public.html (11896 words)

	Marian Horvat Book review of Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell @ TraditionInAction.org
		This book, which Boswell admitted was written to prove there was acceptance of homosexuality in the Western Catholic tradition from the beginning of the Christian era until the 14th century, won the American Book Award for History in 1981.
		Despite Boswell’s claim to an objective interpretation of the facts, his views and scholastic labors were obviously shaped by his personal lifestyle and convictions.
		Boswell also revealed his complete misunderstanding of the underlying spirit of the Age of Faith, which was marked by a tonus of sacrality and spirituality that penetrated all the customs, institutions, laws, as well as relations of civil society.
	www.traditioninaction.org /bkreviews/A_002br_SameSex.htm (1827 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On John Boswell
		John Boswell, Eric Arciga and Arturo Guerrero scored for Hancock...
		Allan Hancock College's John Boswell (9) goes for a header against a Fresno City College player during the Bulldogs' season opener Tuesday afternoon at Hancock.
		John Boswell, "Same Sex Unions In Pre-Modern Europe," New York, Villard Books, 1994] We have seen the demise of cherished and fiercely held doctrines like the divine right of kings and the institution of slavery, the prohibition against usury and the strictures against divorce (Worldwide Faith News (press release)
	authors.surfwax.com /files/John_Boswell_Book.html (516 words)

	Culpa Ecclesiae: Boswell's Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Let it be said up front that John Boswell is a Believer, and that his goal is essentially to reconcile homosexuality and Christianity —; to plead on historical grounds for greater tolerance for “gay people”, while at the same time exonerating Mother Church for her role in the oppression of homosexual men.
		Boswell’s book is heavily laden with the accoutrements of scholarship, and must be sufficiently intimidating to the general reader that he will tend not to question Boswell’s evidence or arguments.
		Although Boswell mentions the Thessalonican massacre in a footnote, he seems unaware of the homosexual background to the event, or its relevance to the proper interpretation of the statute of 390.
	www.galha.org /ptt/lib/hic/lauritsen.html (3391 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Boswell is most famous for his 'Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality,' and this book certainly does not have so great an impact as that classic work.
		Boswell wisely does not assert that the ceremony in question is marriage, but he does raise a number of difficult points; the parallels to marriage are utterly unquestionable.
		In this work, Boswell argues that rituals for the binding of two males (in Eastern Christendom) between the 12th and 16th centuries is evidence of the support for same-sex marriages in earlier Christianity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679751645?v=glance (1887 words)

	The Artist Community ] JOHN BOSWELL [ Montanesque.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		John Boswell's debut album features his unique and pleasing solo piano out on its own.
		John's first holiday collection is filled with original and inspired arrangements of classic holiday tunes mixed with lovely original holiday compositions as well.
		In his second release, John expands on his wonderful solo piano interpretations by including some gentle soprano sax and easy percussion.
	www.arts-com.com /jboswell/index.html (179 words)

	Reviews of John Boswell's Books
		Any who know Boswell, or his work, would agree that he is a painstakingly precise research who truly seeks not just translations or the semiotics of a historical record, but also true understanding of the cultural context in its broadest view.
		To accuse Boswell of "verging on paranoia" as Shaw does, or to state, as does Paglia that the middle ages are "ostensibly his specialty" makes me wonder though, Tom, just why you think the reviews in the TNR and the Washington Post even approach fairness.
		Boswell's discussion of what "brother" means is ignored by Shaw [Boswell notes that "brotherhood", in English and the languages relevant here, virtually never means "the relationship between brothers"; notes the use of brother-sister imagery in heterosexual lovemaking, e.g.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/bosdisc-medjul94.html (3510 words)

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