Spiritual Marriage : : Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock / / Dyan Elliott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Elliott, Dyan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; Introduction --; ONE "A Place in the Middle": Intramarital Chastity as Theoretical Embarrassment and Provocation --; TWO Spiritual Marriage as Insoluble Problem or Universal Nostrum ? --; THREE Eleventh-Century Boundaries: The Spirit of Reform and the Cult of the Virgin King --; FOUR The Conjugal Debt and Vows of Chastity: The Theoretical and Pastoral Discourse of the High and Later Middle Ages --; FIVE Spiritual Marriage and the Penitential Ethos --; SIX Virgin Wives --; Conclusion --; Appendixes --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400844340; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400844340?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dyan Elliott.

The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, plays an important role in the development of the institution of marriage and in the understanding of female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century.