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  • 7 - Rites of Marriage

  • from Part III - Marriage Rites in Byzantine Liturgical Manuscripts
  • Gabriel Radle, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Marriage in Byzantium
    Published online:
    01 May 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 241-309

  • Summary

    Numerous unpublished Greek manuscripts contain the rituals of marriage as performed in diverse regions of the Byzantine world. This chapter both discusses the universal practices of weddings known across Christian communities of the Eastern Mediterranean and discerns unique traditions local to specific regions, like Byzantine Southern Italy or Palestine. The prayers of the marriage rite are analyzed, and attention is given to such gestures as crowning and veiling couples and to traditions previously unknown to Byzantinists, like the practice of breaking a glass at weddings, popularly understood today as a Jewish custom, as well as specific aspects of ritualized bridal costume and the roles of witnesses, or paranymphs.