Same-sex unions in premodern Europe
Histoire, Europe (histoire)
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Résumé
Boswell claims that in ancient and medieval times there were official ceremonies for couples of the same sex that were similar to the marriage ceremony. He analyzes the concepts and vocabulary of love and marriage in the context of different… societies, from the Greco-Roman world to sixteenth-century Europe, and compares the rituals for conventional marriage with the ceremonies in the texts he has discovered. 1994.