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I n d e x Abelard, Peter, 125–49; admonitory references to married sexuality, 147–49, 344n220; castration of, 110, 156; development of flexible criteria for the bride of Christ, 125–49, 160, 164, 166–67; discourse on holy women and the origin of nuns, 139–40, 145; eroticization of religious discourse, 175; Ethics, 127, 131–33, 147, 148, 154; and ethic of pure intention, 125–127, 131–33, 147, 148, 154; as founder of a female community, 163–64; and Heloise’s entrance into religion, 126– 28, 133, 142, 146; and Heloise’s ordination as deaconess, 140–45, 343nn195–96; and Heloise’s questions regarding the nuns and a female rule, 137–46, 163–64; and Heloise’s role as bride of Christ, 134–49, 171; imagery of mystical marriage between Christ and the soul, 171–72; marriage of Abelard and Heloise, 125–49, 160, 164, 166–67, 170; on married women who choose monastic life, 120; meditation on the bride’s color, 136–37; Problemata Heloissae, 141, 147–48; quasi-conjugal heteroascetical relations and model of spiritual marriage, 160, 164, 166–67, 170; and Robert of Arbrissel, 145, 154, 281; Sic et non and series of questions regarding marriage, virginity, and consent, 128–31; on sin and intention, 129–33, 148, 252; on symbolic importance of wearing monastic garb, 127–28; on virginity, 144–45; on the Virgin Mary, 139–40; writings on the religious life, 128–33 Acts of Paul and Thecla, 10, 15 Adalbald (husband of Rictrude), 103–4 Adelheyd (in Nider), 259, 394n163 adultery: clerical attitudes toward marriages born in, 82–83; Cyprian’s use of term, 32– 33; Jerome’s harsh judgment on adulterous marriages, 80 Ælred of Rievaulx: and fledgling order of Gilbert of Sempringham, 331n32; rule for recluses, 108; on virginity, 121, 175 Æthelbert (king of Kent), 64, 327n4 Æthelthryth (abbess of Ely), 78–79, 106–7, 118 Agnes (abbess of Holy Cross at Poitiers), 81, 83, 92, 98, 325n189 Agnes, Empress, 151, 164 Agnes, St.: and Aldhelm, 76, 273; Bridget of Sweden, 218; and the consecration of virgins , 145, 200, 273; mystical pregnancy of, 226; passion of, 50, 200, 308n116, 366n158 Alan of Lille, 174, 352–53n3; Plaint of Nature, 174, 352–53n3 Albert the Great: and eroticization of religious discourse, 175; targeting antinomian heresies, 209, 212, 227; and Thomas of Cantimpré, 204, 209, 243; on women’s menstruation, 364n144, 369n204 Aldhelm: articulation of three degrees of chastity, 71–73; chaste (spiritual) marriage in, 69–72; on exemplary female virgins, 69–70, 317n62; on Judith, 73–74, 318nn81– 82; on male chastity and prototype of male virgin, 68–69, 73, 138, 319n94; treatise on virginity, 67–78, 319n94 Alexis, St. (cult of), 109, 119, 330n29 Alfono of Spina (bishop and theologian), 385n45, 407n11 Alfonso of Jaén, 285 Amalo, Duke, 64 Amator (bishop of Auxerre), 89 Ambrose, 43–55, 57, 281, 282; antiascetical backlash against recruiting of virgins by, 44–45, 49, 50; ascetic seclusion of consecrated virgins, 46; and the chastity debates, 44–46, 306n93; Concerning Virgins, 43, 48, 50–51, 68; condemnation of syneisaktism, 54; and importance of intact virginity, 46, 51–55, 57–58, 60; Origen’s influence on 452 Index Ambrose (cont.) allegorical exegesis of Song of Songs, 48; placing marriage to Christ on same status as secular, 46–47; sanguine conflation of virgins and angels, 47–48; as standard bearer for Athanasius’s message, 43–46, 48, 306n95; treatises on virginity and efforts at recruiting virgins, 43, 49, 306n93; version of the molestiae nuptiarum, 71; on Virgin Mary, 43–44, 46, 55, 306n93 Amos of Nitria and his wife, 69, 70, 72 Andrew of Chaplain, 174–75; Concerning Love, 174–75 androgyny and the early church, 11–13, 19– 20, 23 Angela of Foligno, 215, 393n145; Memorial, 215 angels and humans: Ambrose’s sanguine conflation of virgins and angels, 47–48; angelic androgyny, 19–20; Athanasius and the virgin’s angelic purity, 40–41, 304n65; Book of Enoch, 20, 37, 56, 310n156; church fathers and, 33–34, 36–37, 40–41, 47–48, 55–56, 304n65; Genesis 6 on the sons of God (fallen angels) and the daughters of men, 16, 20–23, 31, 55–56, 205–6, 234, 252, 283–84; Gnostics and, 19–20, 23–27; and marriage rites in the Frankish states, 65, 74–75; miscegenation fears, 16, 20–23, 31, 55–56, 233–45, 252; Origen and the companions of the veiled bride of the Song of Songs, 35–36; Origen on...
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