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

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

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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Main Author: Elliott, Dyan, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
30-1500
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
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