Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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Book

Authors

John Boswell

Tags

Church History, History, Europe, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Gay & Lesbian, Medieval, Gay & Gender Studies, Churches & Church Leadership, Gay Studies

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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