
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
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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.
Author: John Boswell
Format: Paperback, 464 pages, 134mm x 203mm, 380 g
Published: 1995, Random House USA Inc, United States
Genre: Regional History
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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.

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe