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A same-sex marriage ceremony in... Renaissance Rome?

  • Written by Gary Ferguson, Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French, University of Virginia

In the late 16th century, the famous French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote about two marriages between people of the same sex. The first involved women in eastern France, the second a group of men in Rome. At the time, same-sex marriages were not recognized by religious or civil law, and sodomy – a term that included a wide range of...

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