Gendered identities in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs : performing the bride /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Engh, Line.
Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2014] ©2014
Description:	xiv, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Europa sacra ; volume 15 Europa sacra ; v. 15.
Subject:	Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, -- 1090 or 1091-1153. -- Sermones super Cantica Canticorum. Bible. -- Song of Solomon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Bible. -- Song of Solomon -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800. Bible. -- Song of Solomon. Sermones super Cantica Canticorum (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint) Gender identity in the Bible -- Sources. Women in the Bible -- Sources. Gender identity in the Bible. Sermons. Women in the Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works. History. Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10149262

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ISBN:	9782503550039 (hbk.) 2503550037 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
A Note on Editions and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Bride as Trope for the Male
Chapter 1. Gender Blending and Gender Crossing in Premodern Devotion
Chapter 2. Erotic Imagery and Maternal Imagery - Configuring the Bride
Chapter 3. The Mother, the Virgin, and the Bride - Idealized Femaleness
Chapter 4. The Feminized Male - Displacement, Service, and Humility
Chapter 5. Inverting Hierarchies, Staging Eschatology - Unmaking and Remaking Worlds
Chapter 6. Appropriation and Unification - Feminized Man, Divinized Man
Conclusions: A World Without Women - The Bride and the Church Reforms
Appendix: The Vulgate Version of Cantica canticorum 1.1 to 3.1 with English Translation
Bibliography
Index

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