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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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