The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages - Images, Impact, Cognition (Hardcover, 0)

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?

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Knowledge Communities
Release date:	November 2019
Editors:	Line Cecilie Engh
Contributors:	Abigail Firey • Lasse Hodne • David G. • Wolfgang P • Martha G • Marta Ramirez • Philip L • Sebastian Salvado • Alessandro Scafi
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462985919
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General Books > Christianity > Christian life & practice
LSN:	946298591X
Barcode:	9789462985919

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