Abelard’s Rib: Dialectics of a Twelfth-Century Monastic Marriage and the Historical Epistemology of Spirituality
This article proposes to describe the oxymoronic aspect of twelfth-century ascetic life, as it is couched in the semantics of marital ‘love-talk.’ By extending Christian asceticism to the field of marital semantics, I hope to come closer to a more intellectual kind of spirituality, situated in the p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2013, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-89 |
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Devotion
intellectual history
monasticism
poetry
spirituality
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Volltext (Verlag) |