Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780804150958
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Same-sex unionsReligious historyChurch and sexuality
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(1994)
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