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...

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.

Author: John Boswell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/30/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780679751649


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/01/1995
Publishers Weekly 05/08/1995

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.