Same-sex unions in premodern Europe

The author traces same-sex unions from Platonic Greece, to Rome, to Christianized Europe, including Catholic and Orthodox liturgies to bless same-sex unions.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boswell, John, 1947-1994
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Villard Books, 1994.
Edition:1st ed.
Physical Description:
xxx, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Homosexuality -- Europe -- History.
Lesbianism -- Europe -- History.
Same-sex marriage -- Europe -- History.
Homosexuality -- History.
Lesbianism -- History.
Same-sex marriage -- Europe -- History.
Contents:
  • "What in a name?": the vocabulary of love and marriage
  • "For family and country": heterosexual matrimony in the Greco-Roman world
  • "This world is passing away": views of the new religion
  • "What God has joined together": the development of nuptial offices
  • "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments": comparison of same-sex and heterosexual ceremonies of union
  • The history of same-sex unions in medieval Europe
  • "Those who see and those who do not... ": subsequent developments: a look forward.

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