Why am I not amazed that this took place in France?
Query by Lavrenti Beria: Why am I not surprised that this occurred in France?
Gay Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe
Civil unions among male couples existed all around six hundred several years in the past in medieval Europe, a historian now claims.
Historical evidence, including authorized documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of many years ago, said Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
If accurate, the results show socially sanctioned identical-intercourse unions are nothing at all new, nor have been they taboo in the previous.
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For instance, he discovered legal contracts from late medieval France that referred to the expression “affrèrement,” roughly translated as brotherment. Equivalent contracts existed elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe, Tulchin mentioned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070827/sc_livescience/gayunionssanctionedinmedievaleurope
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Remedy by stonethedevil2004
I find it instead amazing the French haven’t died off.With any luck I will see it in my life time
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