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The symbolism of marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages : images, impact, cognition / edited by Line Cecilie Engh.

Contributor(s): Engh, Line Cecilie [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands): 8.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Description: 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789462985919; 946298591XSubject(s): Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History | Christian art and symbolism -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Line Cecilie Engh and Mark Turner -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a case study of symbolic cognition / Line Cecilie Engh and Mark Turner -- 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.

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