Spiritual Marriage : : Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock / / 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 ha...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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