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| | John Boswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | 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 argued that these were sexual unions, but other scholars assert that they were instead rites of becoming adopted brothers, or "blood brothers". |
 | | 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. |
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