Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
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Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780804150958
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Book Synopsis Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by : John Boswell

Book excerpt: 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.


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