In The Name of Loving

There are some things people have killed for, throughout history, that we now find difficult to defend. The wrong family. The wrong rank. The wrong skin. In In the Name of Loving, Risto follows four couples, across nine centuries, who refused. A French philosopher castrated in his bed for marrying his teenage student. A Chinese consort strangled with a silk cord because her own emperor's army demanded it. A Galician noblewoman murdered by the king who was her father-in-law. And an American couple arrested at two in the morning, five weeks after their wedding, for the felony of being married to each other. Each of them paid for it, in different currencies. Each of them did it anyway.