Pacs nel Quattrocento?

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Sul numero di settembre del prestigioso Journal of Modern History, Allan A. Tulchin della Shippensburg University offre le prove documentarie dell’esistenza nell’Europa del 1400 di un istituto giuridico affine alle odierne unioni civili, e come queste aperto anche alle coppie omosessuali («Same-Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement»; riassunto in «Are civil unions a 600-year-old tradition?», EurekAlert, 23 agosto 2007):

"in late medieval France, the term affrèrement – roughly translated as brotherment – was used to refer to a certain type of legal contract, which also existed elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe. These documents provided the foundation for non-nuclear households of many types and shared many characteristics with marriage contracts, as legal writers at the time were well aware, according to Tulchin..."



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