Mark D. Ellison

The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity

Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented in literary sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 1760g
• ISBN-13: 9781032546483
• ISBN-10: 1032546484
• Artikelnr.: 69030990

Autorenporträt

Mark D. Ellison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, USA. He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art (with Robin M. Jensen) and Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity (with Catherine Gines Taylor and Carolyn Osiek).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Monk and the Matrona
1. Introduction: Recovering the Voices of "the Silent Majority"
2. Competing Visions: Early Christian Thought on Marriage and Celibacy
3. Centering Christ: Adaptations of dextrarum iunctio, Concordia pronuba, and coronae impositio in Spousal Portraits
4. Learned, Encircled, Worshipping: Other Forms of Double-Portraits and Self-Representation
5. In the Beginning: Married Christians Putting Adam and Eve to Work
6. After the End: Marriage, Death, and the Afterlife
7. Conclusion: Image and Word in the Conversations of the Christian Past
Appendix: Adam and Eve Images and Marital Contexts on Christian Sarcophagi.