Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Author: John Boswell
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1995-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0679751645

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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
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: John Boswell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-05-30 - Publisher: Vintage

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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
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: John Boswell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-28 - Publisher: Vintage

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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
Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: John Boswell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Villard

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The author traces same-sex unions from Platonic Greece, to Rome, to Christianized Europe, including Catholic and Orthodox liturgies to bless same-sex unions.
The Marriage of Likeness
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: John Boswell
Categories: Civilization, Medieval
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Fontana Press

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Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Gary Ferguson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-09 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary