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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

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Saints Sergius and Bacchus

  • In Saints Sergius and Bacchus

    In Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (1994), American professor and historian John Boswell argued that the relationship between Sergius and Bacchus was romantic in nature and represents a type of early Christian same-sex union. Though this controversial claim has been much debated, the saints are popular…

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