Title: Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock
Abstract: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction31A Place in the Middle: Intramarital Chastity as Theoretical Embarrassment and Provocation162Spiritual Marriage as Insoluble Problem or Universal Nostrum?513Eleventh-Century Boundaries: The Spirit of Reform and the Cult of the Virgin King944The Conjugal Debt and Vows of Chastity: The Theoretical and Pastoral Discourse of the High and Later Middle Ages1325Spiritual Marriage and the Penitential Ethos1956Virgin Wives266Conclusion297Appendixes303Select Bibliography321Index355
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-07-12
Language: en
Type: book
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