Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

Type

Book

Authors

John Boswell

ISBN 10

0679751645

ISBN 13

9780679751649

Tags

Church History, History, Nonfiction, Europe, Christianity, 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 Amzon

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