Note 958 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

For the crowning in the eastern church see Zhishman, Das Eherecht der orient. Kirche, 135, 156, 692 ff.; cf. Martene, De ritibus, I, 125. The crown was made of flowers, often of olive or myrtle, and sometimes of silver or gold. The custom appears in the West, but it became at length so important in the East that the "whole marriage was called the crowning, as in the West it was called the veiling": Meyrick, in Dict. Christ. Antiq., II, 1108, 1109; cf. ibid., I, 511. The pomp is, of course, the Greek pompa: Fustel de Coulanges, Ancient City (Boston, 1896), 55 ff., corresponding to the Roman traductio and the German Brautlauf.