The Boswell Thesis

Acknowledgments
1. The Boswell Thesis
by Mathew Kuefler

Part I - Impact
2. John Boswell's Gay Science: Prolegomenon to a Re-Reading
by Ralph Hexter
3. Touching on the Past
by Carolyn Dinshaw
4. Reading CSTH as a Call to Action: Boswell and Gay-Affirming Movements in American Christianity
by Bernard Schlager
5. "Both as a Christian and as a Historian": On Boswell's Ministry
by Mark D. Jordan

Part II - Debates
6. Fronto + Marcus: Love, Friendship, Letters
by Amy Richlin
7. Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32
by Dale B. Martin
8. My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity
by E. Ann Matter
9. R. W. Southern, John Boswell, and the Sexuality of Anselm
by Bruce O'Brien
10. Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century France
by Mathew Kuefler

Part III - Innovations
11. Impossible Translation: Antony and Paul the Simple in the Historia Monachorum
by Mark Masterson
12. Beauty and Passion in Tenth-Century Córdoba
by Jeffrey A. Bowman
13. Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspective
by Jacqueline Murray
14. Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomy
by Ruth Mazo Karras
15. The Body of Gerardesca of Pisa Reclothed and Resexed
by Penelope D. Johnson
16. Francis of Assisi as Mother, Father, and Androgynous Figure
by Catherine M. Mooney

List of Contributors
Index