Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
A French writer visits : Montaigne's travel journal and a thrice-told tale -- "Our marriages"? Male to male / Like husband and wife -- Marriage rites, analogues, meanings -- Other witnesses, other stories -- Final hours: wills and execution -- Voices on trial: beginning with Battista the boatman -- Saint John at the Latin Gate : Marco Pinto -- Marriage as alibi, as euphemism, as recruitment -- Marriage and community -- Looking forward / Looking Back : The History of Sexuality -- Ghost stories : queer history