Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe Nonbinary and Genderqueer In riveting close readings threaded

In riveting close readings threaded with personal memoir and illuminated by awe

"Pamela Sneed's Funeral Diva is deft

researchers have insisted that women are choosy and monogamous while men are naturally promiscuous

"Tomás Prower takes us on a global journey

and her dirty magazines

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe Nonbinary and Genderqueer In riveting close readings threadedBoth 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.