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Medieval Marriage

David d'Avray
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      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 throughlaw, and lay behind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development in world history. Symbolism is not presented as an explanation on its own: it interacted with other causal factors, notably the eleventh-century Gregorian Reform's drive forcelibacy, which made the higher clergy like a third gender and less sympathetic to patriarchal polygamous tendencies. Sexual intercourse as a symbol of Christ's union with the Church became central, not just in mysticism but in society as structured by Church law. Symbolism also explains apparently bizarre rules, such as the exemption from capital punishment of clerics in minor orders provided that they married a virgin not a widow. The rules about blessing second marriages are also connectedwith this nexus of thought. The book is based on a wide range of manuscript sources: sermons, canon law commentaries, Apostolic Penitentiary registers, papal bulls, a gaol delivery roll, and pastoral handbooks. The collection of documents at the end of the book expands the source base for the history of medieval marriage generally as well as underpinning the thesis about symbolism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David d'Avray EAN: 9780199239788 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 426 g HEIGHT: 212 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-20 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Europe, c 500 to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Social and cultural history, History of religion

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      David d'Avray is Professor of History at University College London.
      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 throughlaw, and lay behind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development in world history. Symbolism is not presented as an explanation on its own: it interacted with other causal factors, notably the eleventh-century Gregorian Reform's drive forcelibacy, which made the higher clergy like a third gender and less sympathetic to patriarchal polygamous tendencies. Sexual intercourse as a symbol of Christ's union with the Church became central, not just in mysticism but in society as structured by Church law. Symbolism also explains apparently bizarre rules, such as the exemption from capital punishment of clerics in minor orders provided that they married a virgin not a widow. The rules about blessing second marriages are also connectedwith this nexus of thought. The book is based on a wide range of manuscript sources: sermons, canon law commentaries, Apostolic Penitentiary registers, papal bulls, a gaol delivery roll, and pastoral handbooks. The collection of documents at the end of the book expands the source base for the history of medieval marriage generally as well as underpinning the thesis about symbolism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David d'Avray EAN: 9780199239788 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 426 g HEIGHT: 212 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-12-20 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, c 500 to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Social and cultural history, History of religion

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      David d'Avray is Professor of History at University College London.

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