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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell : Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (477 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206937
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Bride of Christ Goes to HellDDC classification:
  • 241/.660820940902
LOC classification:
  • BV4647.C5 -- E45 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven: The Bride in the early Church -- Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Embodied Bride -- Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen -- Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (1): Consensuality and Vocation -- Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (2): The Conjugal Reflex -- Chapter 6. The Eroticized Bride of Hagiography -- Chapter 7. Descent into Hell -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven: The Bride in the early Church -- Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Embodied Bride -- Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen -- Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (1): Consensuality and Vocation -- Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (2): The Conjugal Reflex -- Chapter 6. The Eroticized Bride of Hagiography -- Chapter 7. Descent into Hell -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

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.

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