It is his extensive training as a Historian and an understanding of his own homosexuality that gave him unique insight into the writing of Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Two of his greatest professional achievements included being a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Fulbright scholar. In addition to writing Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe he also wrote several other works such as Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. He was an award winning scholar, author and historian. Boswell was a professor at Yale University and Chairman of Yales history department for many years.

Before an analysis of the Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe can be evaluated, its important to know a little about the author himself and what he stood for. This critique examines some specific aspects of the book, and analyzes them. Boswell argues extensively in his book that the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but actually sanctified them.

John Boswell looks extensively at the topic of same-sex unions in his book Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. One society in particular is pre-modern Europe. The question of same-sex unions and their legitimacy in many different societies is a topic that has been hotly debated for centuries.

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