The visual rhetoric of the married laity in late antiquity: iconography, the Christianization of marriage, and alternatives to the ascetic ideal
"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 or missing in literary sources. Historians of earl...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge studies in the early Christian world
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Layman
/ Church office
/ Marriage
/ Rhetoric
/ History 30-600
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| RelBib Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCF Sexual ethics RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Married people in art
B Laity (Rome) Portraits B Marriage Religious aspects Christianity B Art and society (Rome) B Art, Early Christian Themes, motives |
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