 | The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Subjects: Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church ca. 30–600; Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History o; 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. Dyan Elliott is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities in the Department of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
