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 /

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Author / Creator:Elliott, Dyan, 1954-
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.
Description:466 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series.
Subject:
Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women in Christianity -- Early church.
Women in Christianity -- Middle Ages.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8538569
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ISBN:9780812243581 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812243587 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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

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