Same-sex unions in premodern Europe

"What's in a name?" : the vocabulary of love and marriage

"For family and country" : heterosexual matrimony in the Greco-Roman world

"A friend inspired by God" : same-sex unions 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

Appendices. Appendix of translations ; Appendix of documents ; Jewish perspectives ; Manuscripts of the same-sex union ; The Passion of SS. Serge and Bacchus