Marriage between Christians and Gentiles

Since the middle of the 12th century, marriage between Christians and Gentiles was customarily forbidden in the Catholic Church due to Impedimentum disparitas cultus (the difference in religion). Nevertheless, marriage was possible if the partner had previously converted. If this requirement was not fulfilled, the marriage was declared invalid even after the marriage had already taken place. In medieval society, the issue of marriage law was a very controversial subject. The problem is illustrated using the works of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival and Willehalm. With the help of text-oriented analysis and interdiscourse analysis, the marriage relationships in Eschenbach's works are examined in detail. The analysis of marital relationships has shown that Eschenbach undoubtedly presented the church's teaching on marital issues in literary form. He does not limit himself to the literary representation of the canon law conditions of marriage between Christians and non-Christians, but draws attention to their problematic implementation. Eschenbach's critique is not aimed at the Christian religion with regard to Christian-pagan marriage, but rather tries to raise awareness of the difficulties that uncompromisingly conditional marriages cause.

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• Title: Marriage between Christians and Gentiles
• Subtitle: The problem in Wolfram von Eschenbach's works Parzival and Willehalm
• Author: Essi Mawusé Djinkpor
• Edition: 1st edition
• University: University of Bremen, University of Palermo
• Grade: 1.0
• Published: 1st edition 09/19/2012
• Department: German Studies & Literature
• Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
• Product type: Master's thesis
• Language: German
• Binding: Softcover (paperback)
• Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
• Scope: II / 92 pages
• Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
• Keywords: Christians, Christian living together, marriage discourse in the Middle Ages, marital relationship, Feirefiz, Gahmuret, baptized, Giburg, religious war, heathen, conversion, love as a means, love marriage, Parzival, problems of marriage in Parzival, Repanse de Schoye, theological Perspective, the unbaptized, Willehalm, overcoming religious difference

Author

Essi Mawusé Djinkpor, M. A., studied German at the University of Lomé (Togo) and received a scholarship from the DAAD in 2008 to prepare her master’s thesis at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. She completed the Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (Master) at the University of Lomé and switched to studying German Medieval Studies at the Universities of Palermo, Bremen and Porto with an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. This work was submitted as a final thesis at the Universities of Palermo and Bremen and awarded a double degree.

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