Marriage in Byzantium
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46956-2 (ISBN)
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Across cultures, weddings have historically represented some of the most important and extravagant celebrations. This is the first comprehensive study of marriage rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantine Christianity. Using a large corpus of unedited liturgical manuscripts as well as other evidence from jewelry and law to visual representations and theological treatises, Gabriel Radle reconstructs the ceremonies used by the Byzantines to formalize the marriage process, from betrothal to rites of consummation. He showcases the meanings behind rituals of kinship formation and sexual relations and explores how the practice of Byzantine Christianity crossed fluid borders between the church and the domestic sphere. The book situates the development of Byzantine Christian marriage traditions alongside those of other religious communities and, in placing liturgical manuscripts at the heart of this study, paves new methodological paths for the use of ritual sources in the writing of Byzantine history.
GABRIEL RADLE is the Rev. John A. O'Brien Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Medieval Institute. He has held international fellowship appointments at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Princeton University, and a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Regensburg. He specializes in late antique and medieval Christian liturgy and has published numerous articles and chapters, along with four co-edited volumes on Eastern Christian liturgy.
Introduction; Part I. The Christianization of Ancient Marriage Ritual: 1. Pre-Christian Marriage Ritual in the Mediterranean World; 2. Early Christian Weddings in the Eastern Mediterranean; Part II. Byzantine Marriage Rituals Before and Beyond the Liturgical Books: 3. Marriage Ritual in Law and Literature; 4. Marriage in Visual and Material Evidence; Part III. Marriage Rites in Byzantine Liturgical Manuscripts: 5. The Byzantine Euchologion: Sources and Methods; 6. Rites of Betrothal; 7. Rites of Marriage; 8. Rites of the Bridal Chamber; Conclusion: Byzantine Marriage Beyond Byzantium; Appendix I. Chronological List of Manuscripts Consulted; Appendix II. Sample of Marriage Rites in the Manuscript Sources.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 35 Halftones, color |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-46956-8 / 1009469568 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-46956-2 / 9781009469562 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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