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Same-sex marriage in Renaissance Rome : sexuality, identity, and community in early modern Europe /

"Same-sex marriage is a hotly debated topic in the United States, and the world, today. From the tenor of most discussions, however, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferguson, Gary, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A French writer visits: Montaigne's travel journal and a thrice-told tale
  • "Our marriages"? Male to male / Like husband and wife
  • Marriage rites, analogues, meanings
  • Other witnesses, other stories
  • Final hours: wills and execution
  • Voices on trial: beginning with Battista the boatman
  • Saint John at the Latin Gate: Marco Pinto
  • Marriage as alibi, as euphemism, as recruitment
  • Marriage and community
  • Looking forward / Looking Back: The History of Sexuality
  • Ghost stories: queer history.