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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 - The Middle Ages Series Dyan Elliott
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 - The Middle Ages Series
Dyan Elliott
Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the metaphor of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality.
480 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 16, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812243581 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 480 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 162 × 39 mm · 904 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Karras, Ruth Mazo |