Marrying Jesus In Medieval And Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture And Religious Reform

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. She explains how this metaphor, initially devised for a religious elite, became integral to the laity's pursuit of salvation.

• • Author: Rabia Gregory
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 16, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 280 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 147242266X
• • ISBN-13: 9781472422668