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UNISA996248006203316 |
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Autore |
Elliott Dyan |
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Titolo |
Spiritual Marriage : Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock / / Dyan Elliott |
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Princeton (N.J.) : , : Princeton Univ. Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 375 p. ) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ehe - Keuschheit - Geschichte Mittelalter |
Keuschheit - Ehe - Geschichte Mittelalter |
Ehe - Christentum - Geschichte Mittelalter |
Christentum - Ehe - Geschichte Mittelalter |
Ehelosigkeit |
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Christentum |
Europe Social life and customs |
Europe Church history 600-1500 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-354) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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