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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.