The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages
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The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages

Images, Impact, Cognition

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages

Images, Impact, Cognition

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition
  6. 2. Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought
  7. 3. Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands and Wives, Christ and the Church
  8. 4. Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and its Functions in Ancient Christianity
  9. 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
  10. 6. Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire
  11. 7. Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise
  12. 8. Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200
  13. 9. Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Visualization and Interpretation
  14. 10. ‘His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me’: The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere
  15. 11. Marriage in the Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the Officium
  16. 12. What Kind of Marriage Did Pope Innocent III Really Enter Into?: Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority
  17. 13. ‘Please don’t mind if I got this wrong’: Christ’s Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church
  18. Index of Biblical Passages
  19. Index of Names

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Information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Edition
1
Year
2019
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
eBook ISBN
9789048537150
Index
History

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