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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 - The Middle Ages Series
Dyan Elliott
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 - The Middle Ages Series
Dyan Elliott
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.
480 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 16, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780812243581 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 480 |
Dimensions | 238 × 162 × 39 mm · 904 g |
Language | English |
Series Editor | Karras, Ruth Mazo |