Aelred's work, private letters, and his Life by Walter Daniel, another twelfth-century monk of Rievaulx, have led historians, such as John Boswell of Yale University and Brian Patrick McGuire of Roskilde University in Denmark, to suggest that he was homosexual.
In Christianity, "Spiritual Friendship" is a text from the 12th century by Cistercian monk Saint Aelred of Rievaulx.
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