Brother-Making

James Davidson

  • The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell
    Fontana, 412 pp, £8.99, January 1996, ISBN 0 00 686326 4

The ancients were fond of their tropes of impossibility – of rivers flowing backwards and cattle grazing at sea, fish feeding on dry land, gay men getting married:

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