Marriage in Byzantium

Christian Liturgical Rites from Betrothal to Consummation

Gabriel Radle (Yale University, Connecticut)

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Cambridge University Press
23 January 2025

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Christianity; Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals; Sociology: family & relationships

Across cultures, weddings have historically represented some of the most important and extravagant celebrations. This is the first comprehensive study of marriage rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantine Christianity. Using a large corpus of unedited liturgical manuscripts as well as other evidence from jewelry and law to visual representations and theological treatises, Gabriel Radle reconstructs the ceremonies used by the Byzantines to formalize the marriage process, from betrothal to rites of consummation. He showcases the meanings behind rituals of kinship formation and sexual relations and explores how the practice of Byzantine Christianity crossed fluid borders between the church and the domestic sphere. The book situates the development of Byzantine Christian marriage traditions alongside those of other religious communities and, in placing liturgical manuscripts at the heart of this study, paves new methodological paths for the use of ritual sources in the writing of Byzantine history.

By: Gabriel Radle (Yale University Connecticut)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 251mm, Width: 171mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 970g
ISBN: 9781009469562
ISBN 10: 1009469568
Pages: 468
Publication Date: 23 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabriel Radle is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University. He previously served as the Rev. John A. O'Brien Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has held international fellowship appointments at Dumbarton Oaks, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Princeton University, as well as a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Regensburg. He specializes in late antique and medieval Christian liturgy and has published numerous articles and chapters, along with four coedited volumes on Eastern Christian ritual culture.