The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages : Images, Impact, Cognition /

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In the middle ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ, married the universal church. And lay men, high and low, married carnal woman. What unites these marriage...

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Autor principal: Engh, Line Cecilie (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Firey, Abigail (Contribuidor), Hodne, Lasse (Contribuidor), Hunter, David G. (Contribuidor), Müller, Wolfgang P. (Contribuidor), Newman, Martha G. (Contribuidor), Ramírez, Marta Pavón (Contribuidor), Reynolds, Philip L. (Contribuidor), Salvadó, Sebastián (Contribuidor), Scafi, Alessandro (Contribuidor), Shuve, Karl (Contribuidor), Solevåg, Anna Rebecca (Contribuidor), Turner, Mark (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Knowledge Communities ; 8
Temas:
Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > Early works to 1800.
Antiquity.
Gender and Sexuality Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
Medieval Studies.
Religion and Theology.
Sociology and Social History.
HISTORY / Medieval.
marriage, middle ages, symbolism, cognition.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition
  • 2. Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought
  • 3. Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands and Wives, Christ and the Church
  • 4. Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and its Functions in Ancient Christianity
  • 5. 'Put on the dress of a wife, so that you might preserve your virginity': Virgins as Brides of Christ in the Writings of Tertullian
  • 6. Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire
  • 7. Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise
  • 8. Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200
  • 9. Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Visualization and Interpretation
  • 10. 'His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me': The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere
  • 11. Marriage in the Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the Officium
  • 12. What Kind of Marriage Did Pope Innocent III Really Enter Into?: Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority
  • 13. 'Please don't mind if I got this wrong': Christ's Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church
  • Index of Biblical Passages
  • Index of Names

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