Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock by Dyan Elliott

Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock

Dyan Elliott

392 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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 t...

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