The symbolism of marriage in early Christianity and the Latin middle ages : images, impact, cognition / edited by Line Cecilie Engh.
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 men, high and low, married carnal woman. What unites these marriage...
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Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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