Medieval Marriage : Symbolism and Society.

Medieval Marriage : Symbolism and Society.

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Author / Creator:D'Avray, David.
Imprint:Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (335 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Marriage customs and rites -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Marriage customs and rites, Medieval.
Social sciences.
Marriage customs and rites.
Marriage customs and rites, Medieval.
Social sciences.
Europe.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146817
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ISBN:9780191518751
0191518751
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth century are presented, building on the author's Medieval Marriage Sermons. In marriage preaching symbolism was central. Marriage symbolism also became a social force through law, and laybehind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development in.
Other form:Print version: D'Avray, David. Medieval Marriage : Symbolism and Society. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2005 9780198208211

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