num_pages: 412
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
titlecomplete: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, LGBT, History, Religion, Gay, Queer, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Christianity
ratings_count: 799
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Studies
publisher: Villard Books