Books

The Making and Unmaking of a Saint: Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)

Get on Board! The Non-Profit Board Development Workbook: A Working Guide to Better Board Development. (Edmonton: Edmonton Social Planning Council, 1992)

Edited Volumes

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

The Global History of Sexuality Sourcebook. 2 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)

The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. (Peterborough, Canada: Broadview Press, 2007)

The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Journal Articles

“Homoeroticism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Acts, Identities, Cultures.” American Historical Review, 123, no. 4 (October 2018): 1246-66.

“The Convertible Saint: Expeditus through Time and Space.” Journal of Religious History, 42, no. 1 (2018): 25-51.

“An Account of the Churches of Bethlehem and Jerusalem by the Priest Iachintus.” Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research, 61, no. 2 (2017): 161-209.

“The Merry Widows of Late Roman Antiquity: The Evidence of the Theodosian Code.” Gender and History, 27, no. 1 (2015): 28-52.

“Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Saint Gerald of Aurillac.” Viator, 44, no. 2 (2013): 49-98.

“Une image médiévale inédite de saint Géraud d’Aurillac.” Patrimoine en Haute-Auvergne, no. 27 (2013): 54-56.

“How the Holy Grail Ended up in O Cebreiro, Galicia.” Brocar: Cuadernas de investigación histórica, no. 35 (2012): 53-64.

“La rinuncia sessuale e la modernità.” Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell’800 e del ’900, 14, no. 4 (2011): 701-7.

“Anderl of Rinn, the Accusation of Jewish Ritual Murder, and the Historical Memory of Childhood.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2, no. 1 (2009): 1-33.

“The Marriage Revolution in Late Antiquity: The Theodosian Code and Later Roman Marriage Law.” Journal of Family History, 32, no. 4 (2007): 343-70.

“A Wryed Existence: Attitudes Toward Children in Anglo-Saxon England.” Journal of Social History, 24, no. 4 (1991): 823-34.

Book Chapters

“Writing LGBTQ+ Experience into Global and Big History.” In The Oxford Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Howard Chiang and Dominic Janes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Christian Self-Castration as Mystagogical Practice.” In Early Christian Mystagogy and the Body, ed. Niente Vos and Paul van Geest (Louvain: Peeters, 2022), 121-38.

“Sexuality Studies in Historical Comparative Perspective.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sexuality Studies, ed. Nancy A. Naples (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2020), 40-60.

“Saint Gerald of Aurillac, Sex and Violence in Medieval Hagiography.” In Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, ed. Samantha Kahn Herrick (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 232-51.

“The Formation of the Homosexual Subject in Late Roman Antiquity.” In La construction sociale du sujet exclus (IVe-VIe siècle): Discours, lieux et individus, ed. Sylvie Joie, Maria Cristina La Rocca, and Stéphane Gionni (Turnout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019), 227-40.

“Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Christian Rulers of the Later Roman Empire.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe, ed. Sean Brady et al. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 37-62.

“Physical and Symbolic Castration and the Holy Eunuch in Late Antiquity, Third to Sixth Centuries.” In Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Bishops and Eunuchs in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Almut Höfert, Matthew M. Mesley, and Serena Tolino (London: Routledge, 2017), 177-91.

“Clothes (Un)Make the (Wo)Man: Dress and Gender Crossings in Late Antiquity.” In Il genere nella ricerca storica: Atti del VI Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche, ed. Saveria Chemotti and Maria Cristina La Rocca. Vol. 1. Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2015. Pp. 128-36.

“Desire and the Body in the Patristic Period.” In The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 241-54.

“Saint Augustine and the Christian Closet.” In Why the Middle Ages Matter, ed. Celia Chazelle et al. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. 77-89. Japanese translation: Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2014.

“Les histoires de Géraud d’Aurillac.” In Sur les pas de Géraud d’Aurillac en France et en Espagne: Histoire, culte et iconographie, ed. Pierre Moulier. Saint-Flour, France: Cantal patrimoine, 2010. Pp. 21-40.

“Soldiers of Christ: Christian Masculinity and Militarism in Late Antiquity.” In Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader, ed. Björn Krondorfer. London: SCM, 2009. Pp. 237-58.

“Sex with Eunuchs, Sex with Boys, and the Implications of Sexual Difference.” Atti del 53 Congresso Internazionale di Studi sull’alto Medioevo: Comportamenti e immaginario della sessualita nell’alto medioevo. Spoleto, Italy: Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 2006.

“Male Friendship, Sodomy, and Masculine Identity in Twelfth-century France.” In Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, ed. Carol Braun Pasternack and Sharon Farmer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. 145-81.

Reprinted in The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 179-212.

“Castration and Eunuchism in the Middle Ages.” In A Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. James Brundage and Vern Bullough. New York: Garland Press, 1996. Pp. 279-306.