1. John Eastburn Boswell was an American historian and a full professor at Yale University.
10 Facts About John Boswell
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John Boswell was born on March 20,1947, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Colonel Henry John Boswell Jr.
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Boswell received his doctorate in 1975 and joined the Yale University history faculty, where his colleagues included John Morton Blum, David Brion Davis, Jaroslav Pelikan, Peter Gay, Hanna Holborn Gray, Michael Howard, Donald Kagan, Howard R Lamar, Jonathan Spence, Robin Winks, William Cronon, and Edmund Morgan.
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John Boswell sees Jesus as fulfilling the role of the "pronubus" or in modern parallel, best man.
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John Boswell includes evidence supporting Boswell's translation of "marriage" and not, as others claim "a treaty".
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John Boswell was a Roman Catholic, having converted from the Episcopal Church of his upbringing at the age of 15.
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John Boswell was a practicing Roman Catholic throughout his life, maintaining his faith while expressing disagreement with the Church's teachings on homosexuality.
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John Boswell was partnered with Jerone Hart for some twenty years until his death.
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Hart and John Boswell are buried together at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.
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John Boswell died of complications from AIDS in the Yale infirmary in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 24,1994, aged 47.