The symbolism of marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: images, impact, cognition
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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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2019]
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Knowledge communities (8)
Year: 2019 |
Reviews: | [Rezension von: The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition. Edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Knowledge Communities] (2022) (Foley, William Trent, 1954 -)
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wedding ceremony
/ Symbolics
/ History 500-1500
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Collection of essays
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