Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

John Boswell
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
 9780679751649
0-679-75164-5

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.

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the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.