Line Cecilie Engh is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. She was a fellow at The Norwegian Institute in Rome from 2008 to 2017. She is the author of Gendered Identities in Bernard of Clairvaux's 'Sermons on the Song of Songs': Performing the Bride (2014) and numerous book chapters and articles on monastic and papal writing that focus on rhetoric, hermeneutics, metaphor, gender, and cognition.

1 Introduction: A Case Study of Symbolic Cognition Line Cecilie Engh and Mark Turner 2 Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought Philip L. Reynolds 3 Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament: Husbands, Wives, Christ and the Church Anna Rebecca Solevåg 4 Single Marriage and Priestly Identity: A Symbol and Its Functions in Ancient Christianity David G. Hunter 5 'Put on the dress of a wife, so that you might preserve your virginity': Virgins, Brides, and Dress in Late Antiquity Karl Shuve 6 Veiled Threats: Constraining Religious Women in the Carolingian Empire Abigail Firey 7 Double Standards? Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise Alessandro Scafi 8 Marriage, Maternity and the Formation of a Sacramental Imagination: Stories for Cistercian Monks and Nuns around the Year 1200 Martha G. Newman 9 Marriage Symbolism in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts: Visualization and Interpretation Marta Pavón Ramírez 10 'His left arm is under my head and his right arm shall embrace me': The Bride and the Bridegroom in Trastevere Lasse Hodne 11 Marriage in The Divine Office: Nuptial Metaphors in the Medieval Conception of the officium Sebastián Salvadó 12 What Kind of Marriage Did Pope Innocent III Really Enter into? Marriage Symbolism and Papal Authority Line Cecilie Engh 13 'Please don't mind if I got this wrong': Christ's Spiritual Marriage and the Law of the Late Medieval Western Church Wolfgang Müller, Index.