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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Main Author: Ellison, Mark D. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge, 2024
In:Year: 2024
Series/Journal:Routledge studies in the early Christian world
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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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781032546483