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The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages
Images, Impact, Cognition
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The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages
Images, Impact, Cognition
About this book
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?|multidiciplinary approach, high-precision conceptual analyses, a case study of symbolical cognition
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought
- 3. Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament
- 4. Single Marriage and Priestly Identity
- 5. ‘Put on the dress of a wife, so that you might preserve your virginity’
- 6. Veiled Threats
- 7. Double Standards?
- 8. Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination
- 9. Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- 10. ‘His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me’
- 11. Marriage in the Divine Office
- 12. What Kind of Marriage Did Pope Innocent III Really Enter Into?
- 13. ‘Please don't mind if I got this wrong'
- Index of Biblical Passages
- Index of Names