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.
language: English
title: Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
titlecomplete: Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
genres: Christianity, LGBT, Gay, History, Gender Studies, Religion, Sociology, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 798
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Studies
publisher: Random House Value Publishing