Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
John Boswell, "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe"
ISBN: 0679432280, 0679751645 | 1994 | PDF | 412 pages | 20 MB
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.