Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe Paperback by John Boswell

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1995-05-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 464 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679751649
• Item Weight: 379.89 grams
• Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.27 x 0.98 cm

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.

About the Author

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.