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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Gary, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Same-sex marriage > Rome.
Same-sex marriage > Europe > History.
Gay men > Europe > Attitudes.
Homophobia > Europe > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.