The bride of Christ goes to hell : metaphor and embodiment in the lives of pious women, 200-1500 /
Following a long trajectory from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the metaphor of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven
- Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Embodied Bride
- Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen
- Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (1)
- Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (2)
- Chapter 6. The Eroticized Bride of Hagiography
- Chapter 7. Descent into Hell
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.