Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Elliott, Dyan

Titel

Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.