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C o n t e n t s Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Match Made in Heaven: The Bride in the Early Church 9 Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Embodied Bride 30 Chapter 3. The Barbarian Queen 63 Chapter 4. An Age of Affect, 1050–1200 (1): Consensuality and Vocation 106 Chapter 5. An Age of Affect, 1050–1200 (2): The Conjugal Reflex 150 Chapter 6. The Eroticized Bride of Hagiography 174 Chapter 7. Descent into Hell 233 Conclusion 280 List of Abbreviations 287 Notes 293 Bibliography 409 Index 451 Acknowledgments 465 ...

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