Spiritual Marriage

Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock

Dyan Elliott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

1993
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-08649-1 (ISBN)

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This study explores the early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquished sexual activity for reasons of piety. It describes how this practice was manipulated by the clergy and medieval royalty.

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.

Dyan Elliott is Assistant Professor of History and Adjunct of Women's Studies at Indiana University.

Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-08649-4 / 0691086494
ISBN-13	978-0-691-08649-1 / 9780691086491
Zustand	Neuware