Description
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.
Author: John Boswell
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/30/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780679751649
ISBN10: 0679751645
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Christianity | History
Author: John Boswell
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/30/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780679751649
ISBN10: 0679751645
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Christianity | History
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.