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Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe - Popular Culture and Religious Reform (Paperback)
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Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe - Popular Culture and Religious Reform (Paperback)
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The first full-length study of the notion of marriage to Jesus in
late medieval and early modern popular culture, this book treats
the transmission and transformation of ideas about this concept as
a case study in the formation of religious belief and popular
culture. Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern
Europe provides a history of the dispersion of theology about the
bride of Christ in the period between the twelfth and seventeenth
centuries and explains how this metaphor, initially devised for a
religious elite, became integral to the laity's pursuit of
salvation. Unlike recent publications on the bride of Christ, which
explore the gendering of sanctity or the poetics of religious
eroticism, this is a study of popular religion told through
devotional media and other technologies of salvation. Marrying
Jesus argues against the heteronormative interpretation that brides
of Christ should be female by reconstructing the cultural
production of brides of Christ in late medieval Europe. A central
assertion of this book is that by the fourteenth century, worldly,
sexually active brides of Christ, both male and female, were no
longer aberrations. Analyzing understudied vernacular sources from
the late medieval period - including sermons, early printed books,
spiritual diaries, letters, songs, and hagiographies - Rabia
Gregory shows how marrying Jesus was central to late medieval lay
piety, and how the 'chaste' bride of Christ developed out of
sixteenth-century religious disputes.
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