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

Edition 1st ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (472 pages) Series Middle Ages series 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 Summary 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 Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9780812206937 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject 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 HISTORY -- Medieval. Women in Christianity -- Early church Women in Christianity -- Middle Ages Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011023302 ISBN 9780812206937 0812206932

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