num_pages: 412
description: At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated extraordinary controversy. For in Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, Yale historian John Boswell, one of our most respected authorities on the Middle Ages, produces extensive 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 that bear striking resemblance to the heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
language: English
title: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
titlecomplete: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
genres: Religion, Queer, LGBT, Nonfiction, Gay, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Sociology, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 798
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Studies
publisher: Vintage