The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 (The Middle Ages Series) PDF
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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 1 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM THe Middle AGes series ruth Mazo Karras, series editor edward Peters, Founding editor A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 2 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM 21988(20403) The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell Metaphor and embodiment in the lives of Pious Women, 200–1500 dyan elliott university of pennsylvania press philadelphia 21988(20403) Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 3 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM Copyright © 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United states of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data elliott, dyan, 1954– The bride of Christ goes to hell : metaphor and embodiment in the lives of pious women, 200–1500 / dyan elliott. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (The Middle Ages series) includes bibliographical references and index. isBN 978-0-8122-4358-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Virginity—religious aspects—Christianity—History of doctrines—early church, ca. 30–600. 2. Virginity—religious aspects—Christianity—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500. 3. Marriage—religious aspects—Christianity— History of doctrines—early church, ca. 30–600. 4. Marriage— religious aspects—Christianity—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500. 5. Women in Christianity—History—early church, ca. 30–600 6. Women in Christianity—History— Middle Ages, 600–1500. i. Title. ii. series: Middle Ages series BV4647.C5e45 2012 241'.660820940902—dc23 2011023302 Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 4 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM 21988(20403) For my dear friend, susan Gubar An inspiration 21988(20403) Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 5 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM This page intentionally left blank late medieval thought . . . frequently moves living thought from the abstract in the direction of the pictorial as if the whole of intellectual life sought concrete expression, as if the notion of gold was immediately minted into coin. There is an unlimited desire to bestow form on everything that is sacred, to give any religious idea a material shape so that it exists like a crisply printed picture. This tendency towards pictorial expression is constantly in jeopardy of becoming petrified. . . . [i]n this supernaturalized atmosphere, the religious tension of true transcendence, the stepping away from the material, cannot always occur. —Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages 21988(20403) Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 7 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM This page intentionally left blank Contents introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven: The Bride in the early Church 9 Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the embodied Bride 30 Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen 63 Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050–1200 (1): Consensuality and Vocation 106 Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050–1200 (2): The Conjugal reflex 150 Chapter 6. The eroticized Bride of Hagiography 174 Chapter 7. descent into Hell 233 Conclusion 280 list of Abbreviations 287 Notes 293 Bibliography 409 index 451 Acknowledgments 465 21988(20403) Elliott_BrideOfChristGoesToHell_FM.indd 9 21988(20403) 3/29/13 8:12 AM
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