Elliott, Dyan. <br/><br/>
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell :  Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (477 pages) 
 - The Middle Ages Series .
 - The Middle Ages Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812206937 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4647.C5 -- E45 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>241/.660820940902