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 / / Dyan Elliott.

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The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity'...

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Elliott, Dyan,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven
  • Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Embodied Bride
  • Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen
  • Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (1)
  • Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050-1200 (2)
  • Chapter 6. The Eroticized Bride of Hagiography
  • Chapter 7. Descent into Hell
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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