This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity.

"Teaching Narcissus to Swim" will surprise you with its clear, innocent voice and its artistic beauty. There's nothing Greek about this book except the title reference. On the contrary, it is quintessentially American. Half Indian, half cowboy, protagonist Buck McKuen is a naive runaway boy the morning he arrives in rough-and-tumble Ruidoso, New Mexico. He has witnessed his father's untimely death, clashed with his brother and left his family's ranch in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma to make his own way in a world of unexpected complexity. By summer's end he has experienced love, loss and all...