Same-Sex Unions in Premodern EuropeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 28 aug. 2013 - 464 pagini 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. |
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Heterosexual Matrimony in | |
SameSex Unions in the Greco | |
Views of the New Religion | |
The Development | |
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit | |
The History of SameSex Unions in Medieval Europe | |
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Epilogue | |
Index | |
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