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.
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.
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.
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.
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