Reviews

The acceptance and sanctification of homosexual relations in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches during Medieval Europe are examined in this scholarly work. (June)

The title sounds weighty, but Yale historian Boswell--author of the ``exceptionally important'' Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality ( LJ 6/1/80)--is on to something that could prove quite sensational. He has discovered the existence of a same-sex nuptial liturgy evidently used by the Church throughout the early Christian era.