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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

By John Boswell

By John Boswell

By John Boswell

By John Boswell

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May 30, 1995 | 464 Pages

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    About Same-Sex Unions in Premodern 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.

    About Same-Sex Unions in Premodern 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.

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    About 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.

    About 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.

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology | History | Religion

    Paperback | $18.95
    Published by Vintage
    May 30, 1995 | 464 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679751649

    Category: Psychology | History | Religion

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 28, 2013 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780804150958

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    Praise

    "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

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