The symbolism of marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages : images, impact, cognition / edited by Line Cecilie Engh.
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Engh, Line Cecilie (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9789462985919
- Publicerad: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
- Engelska 354 pages
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Serie: Knowledge communities ; 8
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Sammanfattning
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- Line Cecilie Engh and Mark Turner -- Introduction : a case study of symbolic cognition / Conjugal and nuptial symbolism in medieval Christian thought / Philip L. Reynolds -- Marriage symbolism and social reality in the New Testament : husbands and wives, Christ and the Church / Anna Rebecca Solevåg -- Single marriage and priestly identity : a symbol and its functions in ancient Christianity / David G. Hunter -- "Put on the dress of a wife, so that you might preserve your virginity" : virgins as brides of Christ in the writings of Tertullian / Karl Shuve -- Veiled threats : constraining religious women in the Carolingian Empire / Abigail Firey -- Double standards? Medieval marriage symbolism and Christian views on the Muslim Paradise / Alessandro Scafi -- Marriage, maternity, and the formation of a sacramental imagination : stories for Cistercian monks and nuns around the year 1200 / Martha G. Newman -- Marriage symbolism in illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : visualization and interpretation / Marta Pavón Ramírez -- "His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me" : the bride and the bridegroom in Trastevere / Lasse Hodne -- Marriage in the divine office : nuptial metaphors in the medieval conception of the 'officium' / Sebastián Salvadó -- What kind of marriage did Pope Innocent III really enter into? Marriage symbolism and papal authority / Line Cecilie Engh -- "Please don't mind if I got this wrong" : Christ's spiritual marriage and the law of the late medieval western Church / Wolfgang P. Müller.
- "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 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 thinking, contrariwise, shape marriage regulation and law? And how, if at all, were these two directions of thinking symbolically about marriage related?"-- Back cover.
Ämnesord
- Kristendom (sao)
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. (LCSH)
- Christian art and symbolism -- History. (LCSH)
- Christian art and symbolism. (fast)
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (fast)
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History. (nli)
- Christian art and symbolism -- History. (nli)
- Äktenskap -- religiösa aspekter -- historia (sao)
- Kristen konst och symbolik -- historia (sao)
- Christianity (LCSH)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Klassifikation
- HQ513 (LCC)
- 248.844 (DDC)
- Cead (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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