7. Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 6
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Abbreviations 11
6. 1. Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition 13
7. 2. Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought 37
8. 3. Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands and Wives, Christ and the Church 91
9. 4. Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and its Functions in Ancient Christianity 111
10. 5. ‘Put on the dress of a wife, so that you might preserve your virginity’: Virgins as Brides of Christ in the Writings of Tertullian 131
11. 6. Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire 155
12. 7. Double Standards?: Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise 179
13. 8. Marriage, Maternity, and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200 203
14. 9. Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Visualization and Interpretation 231
15. 10. ‘His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me’: The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere 259
16. 11. Marriage in the Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the Officium 281
17. 12. What Kind of Marriage Did Pope Innocent III Really Enter Into?: Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority 301
18. 13. ‘Please don’t mind if I got this wrong’: Christ’s Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church 329
19. Index of Biblical Passages 349
20. Index of Names 353