1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248006203316

Autore

Elliott Dyan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton (N.J.) : , : Princeton Univ. Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-4008-4434-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 375 p. )

Collana

Princeton paperbacks

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Ehe - Keuschheit - Geschichte Mittelalter

Keuschheit - Ehe - Geschichte Mittelalter

Ehe - Christentum - Geschichte Mittelalter

Christentum - Ehe - Geschichte Mittelalter

Ehelosigkeit

Ehe

Christentum

Europe Social life and customs

Europe Church history 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910477301003321

Titolo

A global history of early modern violence / Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

ISBN

9781526140616

1526140616

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Disciplina

363.3209

Soggetti

Technology & Engineering / Agriculture

Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures, maps, and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he' -- 2 Both benevolent and brutal -- 3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam -- 4 Towards a political economy of conquest -- 5 Ravages and depredations -- Part II: Restraint and excess -- 6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica -- 7 Restraining/encouraging violence -- 8 Restraining violence on the seas -- 9 'The wrath of God' -- Part III: Differentiation and identification -- 10 'Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre' -- 11 Atlantic slave systems and violence -- 12 A 'theatre of bloody carnage' -- 13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern -- Select bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations,



legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodologies of the study of violence into the history of war, thereby extending the historical significance of both fields of research. Thirteen case studies outline the myriad ways in which large-scale violence was understood and used by states and non-state actors throughout the early modern period across Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Atlantic, and Europe, demonstrating that it was far more complex than would be suggested by simple narratives of conquest and resistance. Moreover, key features of imperial violence apply equally to large-scale violence within societies. As the authors argue, violence was a continuum, ranging from small-scale, local actions to full-blown war. The latter was privileged legally and increasingly associated with states during early modernity, but its legitimacy was frequently contested and many of its violent forms, such as raiding and destruction of buildings and crops, could be found in activities not officially classed as war.