The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity : Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal (Paperback)

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.