TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elliott,Dyan
TI  - The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812206937
AV  - BV4647.C5 -- E45 2012eb 
U1  - 241/.660820940902 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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