The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500
Author:   Dyan Elliott ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
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9780812243581


Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 November 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dyan Elliott ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780812243581


ISBN 10:   0812243587
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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<p> This is a great book, with an overarching design, a bold and provocative argument, and a sweeping narrative, fashioned with a penetrating look and written in a reassuringly smart, witty voice. --Gabor Klaniczay, Central European University


This is a great book, with an overarching design, a bold and provocative argument, and a sweeping narrative, fashioned with a penetrating look and written in a reassuringly smart, witty voice. -Gabor Klaniczay, Central European University


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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.

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