Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
#1Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:44pm
here's the scoop!
Yup!!!
#2re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:45pm
I was just about to post this article.
Look how far we've come!
#2re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:47pmYou beat me to the punch once again Elphaba!
#3re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:48pmIt would be very interesting to see when/where things changed.
#4re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:50pm
There is a book about this that was first published twelve years ago:
Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#5re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:53pm
"It would be very interesting to see when/where things changed."
My guess is around the time one of the Pope's boyfriends ran off with a Bishop.
#6re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:57pmso that's what they mean by Bishop takes Queen.....
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#7re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:58pmD2 - that book is in my home library - very interesting (if a bit dry) read.
#8re: Gay Ubions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:59pmMine too, DG. That's how I knew about it. Fascinating book.
#9re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:05pm
The controversial gay scholar John Boswell wroite about these unions 12 years ago, in his landmark "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe"--which was published posthumously after we lost him to AIDS on Christmas Day 1994.
Boswell had previously written "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century," for which he received the National Book Award.
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
#10re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:06pmAnd D2 and DG--you both beat me to the punch...or should I say, to the altar!
#11re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:06pm
Uh, yeah. 
#12re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/27/07 at 6:03pm
"so that's what they mean by Bishop takes Queen....."
Love that line.
#13re: Gay Unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Posted: 8/28/07 at 5:14am"Just think, Herbert; in a thousand years' time, this will still be controversial."
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