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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780679751649
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 05-30-1995
Pages: 464
Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
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.