Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
John Boswell
0 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0517164574
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Language: English
Publish: November 19, 1995
ChristianityGayGender StudiesHistoryLGBTNonfictionQueerReligionSexualitySociology
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them–in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.