Spiritual marriage : sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock [eBook - hoopla]

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Spiritual marriage : sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock

(2021)

By: Elliott, Dyan, 1954-

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[United States] : Princeton University Press, 2021
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9781400844340 MWT15909511, 1400844347 15909511

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English

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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 hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century

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