Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition
- 2 Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought
- 3 Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands and Wives, Christ and the Church
- 4 Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and its Functions in Ancient Christianity
- 5 ‘Put on the Dress of a Wife, so that you Might Preserve your Virginity’: Virgins as Brides of Christ in the Writings of Tertullian
- 6 Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire
- 7 Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise
- 8 Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200
- 9 Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Visualization and Interpretation
- 10 ‘His Left Arm is under my Head and his Right Arm shall Embrace me’: The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere
- 11 Marriage in the Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the Officium
- 12 What Kind of Marriage did Pope Innocent III Really Enter into?: Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority
- 13 ‘Please don't Mind if i got this Wrong’: Christ's Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church
- Index of Biblical Passages
- Index of Names
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition
- 2 Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought
- 3 Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands and Wives, Christ and the Church
- 4 Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and its Functions in Ancient Christianity
- 5 ‘Put on the Dress of a Wife, so that you Might Preserve your Virginity’: Virgins as Brides of Christ in the Writings of Tertullian
- 6 Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire
- 7 Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise
- 8 Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200
- 9 Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Visualization and Interpretation
- 10 ‘His Left Arm is under my Head and his Right Arm shall Embrace me’: The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere
- 11 Marriage in the Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the Officium
- 12 What Kind of Marriage did Pope Innocent III Really Enter into?: Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority
- 13 ‘Please don't Mind if i got this Wrong’: Christ's Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church
- Index of Biblical Passages
- Index of Names
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- The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle AgesImages, Impact, Cognition, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2019