Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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Original publication date

1994

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Important places

Albania; Boeotia, Greece; Bulgaria; Constantinople; Crete, Greece; Egypt (show all 21); Episcopal Church; Germany; St. Panteleimon Monastery; Office of Same Sex Union; Paris Bsibliothèque Nationale de France; Romania; Serbia; Sinai; Sodom; Spain; Sparta, Greece; Ireland; Istanbul, Turkey; Italy; Kievan Caves Monastery

Important events

Alexandrian Neo-Platonism; Middle Ages

Dedication

This book is dedicated with gratitude and affection to James Meehan, without whom it would not have been completed. And with sadness to Mac and David, and all the others who did not live to see it finished.

First words

Three peculiar features of the psychological landscape of the modern West particularly influence any modern reader's understanding and perception of romantic love and coupling patterns (for either or both genders) in ancient ... (show all)societies.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Recognizing that many -- probably most -- earlier Western societies institutionalized some form of romantic same-sex union gives us a much more accurate view of the immense variety of human romantic relationships and social responses to them than does the prudish pretense that such "unmentionable" things never happened.