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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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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Villard Books,
1994.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Physical Description: |
xxx, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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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.