Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the Metaphor of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality..
Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the Metaphor of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety surrounding the somatization of female spirituality.