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
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Whats in a Name? The vocabulary of Love and Marriage | 3 |
For Family and Country Heterosexual Matrimony in the GrecoRoman World | 28 |
A Friend Inspired by God Same Sex Unions in the GrecoRoman World | 53 |
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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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