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Spiritual Marriage
Spiritual Marriage
Author: Dyan Elliott
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691086491
ISBN-10: 0691086494
Publication Date: 7/12/1993
Pages: 392
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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