The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell : Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500.
Title:
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell : Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500.
Author:
Elliott, Dyan.
ISBN:
9780812206937
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Series:
The Middle Ages Series
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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 -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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