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original and deeply thoughtful study focuses on a specific historical event, placed in various theoretical, cultural, political, religious and historiographical contexts. In a group of gathered to celebrate a same-sex wedding at the were arrested, and eight subsequently executed. present-day controversies over same-sex marriage and this late sixteenth-century same-sex wedding, Ferguson highlights this event’s relationship to the contested nature of marriage, both in early modern Europe and the present-day West, illuminating both early modern and our own attitudes toward sex, sexuality, gender and desire. Taking seriously the gaps in this historical evidence, as well as their inevitably shifting meaning for early modern and twenty-first century readers, Ferguson’s acute of the textuality of the accounts surrounding this historical event provokes unprecedented insights into the lives, desires and relationships of this doomed group.