Same-sex Unions in Premodern EuropeBoth 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. |
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SAME-SEX UNIONS IN PREMODERN EUROPE
Comentariu Utilizator - KirkusBoswell (History/Yale; Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, not reviewed) convincingly establishes that, from ancient times to the 18th century, throughout Christian Europe, same-sex ... Citiți recenzia completă
Same-sex unions in premodern Europe
Comentariu Utilizator - Not Available - Book VerdictNot since Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1981) have Christians of all creeds confronted a work that makes them look so closely at their notions of ... Citiți recenzia completă
Cuprins
The Vocabulary | 3 |
Heterosexual | 28 |
A Friend Inspired by God SameSex | 53 |
Views | 108 |
The Development of Nuptial Offices | 162 |
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds | 199 |
The History of SameSex Unions | 218 |
Those Who See and Those Who | 262 |
Epilogue | 280 |
Appendix of Translations | 283 |
Appendix of Documents | 345 |
Jewish Perspectives | 364 |
Manuscripts of the SameSex Union | 372 |
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Informații bibliografice
| Titlu | Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe |
| Autor | John Boswell |
| Ediție | retipărită |
| Editor | Vintage Books, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0679751645, 9780679751649 |
| Lungime | 412 pagini |
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