The bride of Christ goes to hell : metaphor and embodiment in the lives of pious women, 200-1500 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elliott, Dyan, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
30-1500
Women in Christianity > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Virginity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Virginity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Mariage > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes dans le christianisme > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Femmes dans le christianisme > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Virginité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
HISTORY > Medieval.
Women in Christianity > Early church
Women in Christianity > Middle Ages
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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