Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
$36.92
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2002
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679751649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679751645 |
| Author: | John Boswell |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“Boswell’s book provides us with a whole new [historical] model for adult gay relationships.”–Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University
“I have the greatest respect for John Boswell as an historian and as a person of integrity, and I feel his work will be of great help to the church in dealing with gay marriages.”–Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore of New York
About The Author
John Boswell
John Boswell (1947–1994) won the 1981 American Book Award for history for his groundbreaking work Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.
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