Same-sex unions in premodern Europe / John Boswell.
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1995.
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| Edition: | First Vintage books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "What's in a name?" : the vocabulary of love and marriage
- "For family and country" : heterosexual matrimony in the Greco-Roman world
- "A friend inspired by God" : same-sex unions in the Greco-Roman world
- "This world is passing away" : views of the new religion
- "What God has joined together" : the development of nuptial offices
- "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" : comparison of same-sex and heterosexual ceremonies of union
- The history of same-sex unions in medieval Europe
- "Those who see and those who do not-- " : subsequent developments : a look forward
- Appendices. Appendix of translations ; Appendix of documents ; Jewish perspectives ; Manuscripts of the same-sex union ; The Passion of SS. Serge and Bacchus.