Same-Sex Unions in Premodern EuropeBoth 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 15 |
Section 2 | 39 |
Section 3 | 193 |
Section 4 | 193 |
Section 5 | 193 |
Section 6 | 193 |
Section 7 | 193 |
Section 8 | 193 |
Section 17 | 262 |
Section 18 | 291 |
Section 19 | 294 |
Section 20 | 295 |
Section 21 | 296 |
Section 22 | 297 |
Section 23 | 299 |
Section 24 | 301 |
Section 9 | 193 |
Section 10 | 193 |
Section 11 | 193 |
Section 12 | 193 |
Section 13 | 193 |
Section 14 | 193 |
Section 15 | 198 |
Section 16 | 261 |
Section 25 | 323 |
Section 26 | 331 |
Section 27 | 334 |
Section 28 | 336 |
Section 29 | 357 |
Section 30 | 358 |
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Common terms and phrases
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