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 people, high and low, married each other. What united these marriag...

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Contributors: Engh, Line Cecilie 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2019
In: 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 -)
Series/Journal:Knowledge communities 8
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marriage / Symbolism / Relationship / Church / Celibacy / Law / Politics / History 30-1300
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Europe ; Social life and customs
B Europe Social life and customs
B Marriage ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
B Marriage Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500
B Christian art and symbolism ; History ; To 1500
B Marriage History To 1500 (Europe)
B Christian art and symbolism History To 1500
B Marriage ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History ; To 1500
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Summary: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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ISBN:9048537150