Spiritual marriage sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock
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 ha...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
1993
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- "A Place in the Middle": Intramarital Chastity as Theoretical Embarrassment and Provocation
- Spiritual Marriage as Insoluble Problem or Universal Nostrum?-- Eleventh-Century Boundaries: The Spirit of Reform and the Cult of the Virgin King
- The Conjugal Debt and Vows of Chastity: The Theoretical and Pastoral Discourse of the High and Later Middle Ages
- Spiritual Marriage and the Penitential Ethos
- Virgin Wives--Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Select Bibliography-- Index.
