Books like Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
In *Same‑Sex Unions in Pre‑Modern Europe*, historian John Boswell—then a Yale professor and specialist on homosexuality in Christian Europe—argues that throughout much of Medieval Christian Europe, unions between individuals of the same sex were socially accepted. He discusses the difficulties of accurately translating Ancient Greek and Latin terms related to love, relationships, and unions into English, and places these same‑sex unions within the wider context of marriage and union practices in the Classical world and early Christian Europe.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: History/Medieval History
Authors: John Boswell
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