The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages : Images, Impact, Cognition Hardback
Edited by Line Cecilie Engh
Part of the Knowledge Communities series
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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 people, high and low, married each other. What united these marriages was their common reference to the union of Christ and Church.
Christ's marriage to the Church was the paradigmatic symbol in which all the other forms of union participated, in superior or inferior ways.
This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period.
In what ways did marriage symbolism - with its embedded concepts of gender, reproduction, household, and hierarchy - shape people's thought about other things, such as celibacy, ecclesial and political relations, and devotional relations?
How did symbolic cognition shape marriage itself? And how, if at all, were these two directions of thinking symbolically about marriage related?
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages, 21 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2019
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- ISBN:9789462985919
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages, 21 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2019
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- ISBN:9789462985919
