Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome : : Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe / / Gary Ferguson.
From the tenor of contemporary discussions, 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 Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome. Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 5 halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Engagement
- PART I. Stories – Observers
- Chapter 1. A French Writer Visits
- Chapter 2. “Our Marriages”? Male to Male / Like Husband and Wife
- Chapter 3. Marriage—Rites, Analogues, Meanings
- Chapter 4. Other Witnesses, Other Stories
- PART II. Stories – Actors
- Chapter 5. Final Hours
- Chapter 6. Voices on Trial
- Chapter 7. Saint John at the Latin Gate
- Chapter 8. Marriage as Alibi, as Euphemism, as Recruitment
- Chapter 9. Marriage and Community
- PART III. Histories
- Chapter 10. Looking Forward / Looking Back
- Chapter 11. Ghost Stories. Queer History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index