xxx, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"What in a name?": the vocabulary of love and marriage -- "For family and country": heterosexual matrimony in the Greco-Roman world -- "This world is passing away": views of the new religion -- "What God has joined together": the development of nuptial offices -- "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments": comparison of same-sex and heterosexual ceremonies of union -- The history of same-sex unions in medieval Europe -- "Those who see and those who do not...": subsequent developments: a look forward.