Dyan Elliott

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell

Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500

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Produktbeschreibung

Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the metaphor of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243581
• ISBN-10: 0812243587
• Artikelnr.: 33875122

Autorenporträt

Dyan Elliott is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities in the Department of History at Northwestern University and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. She is the author of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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