John Boswell

John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 - December 24, 1994), was a gay historian.

Works

• Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century (1977) – Online
• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980)
• Rediscovering Gay History: Archetypes of Gay Love in Christian History (1982)
• The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (1989)
• Homosexuality in the Priesthood and the Religious Life (1991) (co-author)
• Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy (1992)
• The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Union in Premodern Europe (1994)