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Author Elliott, Dyan, 1954-

Title Spiritual marriage : sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock / Dyan Elliott.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993]
©1993

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  265.5 E46S    Check Shelf
Description xv, 375 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. "A Place in the Middle": Intramarital Chastity as Theoretical Embarrassment and Provocation -- 2. Spiritual Marriage as Insoluble Problem or Universal Nostrum? -- 3. Eleventh-Century Boundaries: The Spirit of Reform and the Cult of the Virgin King -- 4. The Conjugal Debt and Vows of Chastity: The Theoretical and Pastoral Discourse of the High and Later Middle Ages -- 5. Spiritual Marriage and the Penitential Ethos -- 6. Virgin Wives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-354) and index.
Subject Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Sexual abstinence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Sexual abstinence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
Indexed Term Sexual relationships History
Europe
ISBN 0691086494
9780691086491
0691010889
9780691010885
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