Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

Type

Book

Authors

John Boswell

ISBN 10

0679432280

ISBN 13

9780679432289

Tags

Marriage, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Gay & Lesbian

Description

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.From the Trade Paperback edition. - from Amzon

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