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Marriage in Western Church : the christianization of marriage during the Patristic and Early Medieval periods

Examining how marriage acquired a specifically Christian identity in the Western Church from the patristic through Carolingian periods, this text shows how theologians came to regard marriage as an ecclesiastical institution and how they developed a Christian theology of marriage.
Print Book, English, 1994
E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1994
Historia
XXX, 436 p. 24 cm.
9789004100220, 9004100229
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