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Spiritual Marriage

Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock [Paperback]

by Dyan Elliott

Author
Dyan Elliott
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
November 1995

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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, this book traces the history of spiritual marriage from apostolic times to the beginning of the 16th century.