The visual rhetoric of the married laity in late antiquity: iconography, the Christianization of marriage, and alternatives to the ascetic ideal
Prologue: The Monk and the Matrona -- Introduction: Recovering the Voices of "the Silent Majority" -- Competing Visions: Early Christian Thought on Marriage and Celibacy -- Centering Christ: Adaptations of dextrarum iunctio, Concordia pronuba, and coronae impositio in Spousal Portraits --...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge,
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge studies in the early Christian world
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| Further subjects: | B
Marriage
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Married people in art B Laity (Rome) Portraits B Art and society (Rome) B ART / Religious / Subjects & Themes B Art, Early Christian Themes, motives B ART / Ancient & Classical / History B Ancient / Generals / HISTORY |
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Volltext (doi) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781032546483 |
| Summary: | Prologue: The Monk and the Matrona -- Introduction: Recovering the Voices of "the Silent Majority" -- Competing Visions: Early Christian Thought on Marriage and Celibacy -- Centering Christ: Adaptations of dextrarum iunctio, Concordia pronuba, and coronae impositio in Spousal Portraits -- Learned, Encircled, Worshipping: Other Forms of Double-Portraits and Self-Representation -- In the Beginning: Married Christians Putting Adam and Eve to Work -- After the End: Marriage, Death, and the Afterlife -- Conclusion: Image and Word in the Conversations of the Christian Past -- Appendix: Adam and Eve Images and Marital Contexts on Christian Sarcophagi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages), illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-003-42596-0 1-003-42596-8 978-1-003-83232-4 1-003-83232-6 978-1-003-83229-4 1-003-83229-6 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003425960 |
