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...Russell E. Martin Duke University Press 2008 a Gifts for the Bride: Dowries, Diplomacy, and Marriage Politics in Muscovy Russell E. Martin...

...Joëlle Rollo-Koster © by Duke University Press 2002 a From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages Joëlle...

... on the Continent, the essay probes the causal links between mental anguish, suicide, and forced professions. Despite challenges in quantifying convent suicide cases, it is clear that suicidal behaviors were not uncommon in Italian convents. Much was at stake from both a social and salvific standpoint when a “bride...

... controversy can be demon- strated on the basis of the alternative interpretations developed by Jovinian and Ambrose of that key biblical trope, the Church as the Bride of Christ. For example, Jerome reported that one of the many biblical texts invoked by Jovinian was 2 Corinthians 11:2 (“I espoused you...

... traditions ( Jewish and Islamic) portray her darkness (or hairiness) as the brand of her exotic sexuality.63 Finally, the bride in the Song of Songs, who sings “I am black but beautiful” (1:5), is sometimes represented as dark-skinned in late medieval illustra...

... the sixteen-year- old Dorothea Elisabeth Lichtwer with the consent of her parents and after a five-year struggle with courts, dukes, and consistories. He and his bride had requested — and received in January 1667 — permission to wed from the Elector of Saxony...

... itself. The essays in the final section address the role of women in medieval and early modern diplomacy, both as negotiators and as brides exchanged in politically arranged marriages. Denis Crouzet’s essay on Catherine de Medici’s orchestration of the 1579 Nérac peace conference shows how...

... derlyng, I am glad thou art comen to me; in all thi wo I have ever be with thee, and now seist thou my lovyng, and we be onyd [united] in bliss Ultimately, however, such examples fall under the broader trope of Christ as a bridegroom and the church as his bride, or what Walter Hilton refers...

... husband’. . . and I will take you for my wife forever” (Hosea 2:19). Puritan pastors and poets fully embraced this 204  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 image, often melding it with the Song of Song’s erotic exchange between bride and bridegroom to explain...

... guides the harlot Pelagia into the very church where Nonnos is preaching; overcome and weeping, she demands to be baptized: “Y ou must baptize me at once and so make me a stranger to my evil deeds; you will become a stranger to your holy altar and deny your God if you don’t make me a bride of Christ...

..., so precious pure,” identified with a then rare gem that — rounded, white, and smooth — was strongly associated with purity Most of all, she appears to her father as glorified by death, living happily in the Heavenly City, surrounded by thou- sands of other virgins, all now brides of Christ...

... the history Gallagher and Greenblatt address. The Church, according to Catholic tradition, was created by the triune God, an act figured in the creation of Eve (Gen. 2:21–23). The body of Christ and the bride of Christ, the Church was built up by the sac- raments (plural) given by Christ.5 Piers...

... the proposed marriage of “the legless tailor,” Barthold Ernst, in 1798; the second involving the suitability of a marriage in 1740 between a prosperous German merchant and “a child bride” of twelve years. In both cases, the concerns of German villagers were often cast in moral terms (Would Ernst become...

... and elegantly poised.34 Indeed, only the courtesan’s lifting of her veil in the miniature on folio 62r reminds the viewer how to know for certain who is a courtesan (see fig. 5). On folio 65r of Ortel’s album, the miniature represents a Venetian bride who carries an expensive ostrich-feathered...

...: “That hag whom you saw is this city, which is presently almost dead from neglect and old age. Through you it is to be renovated to such a state of beauty that it will be called queen among all the cities of Greece.”15 Tales of such marriages when the bride is a city...

... and ornament of all chaste souls” [solus / Sponsus castarum necnon decus est animarum] (Agnes 23–24; 211). In return for the exchange, the bridegroom not only offers the bride assurance of a noble lineage, but also existential security in the form of wealth, shelter, and food, the latter evoking...

... way, one of which belongs to her as the loved one, that is, the bride, the other to her beloved, that is, as Christ, the Angel of Great Counsel.26 Just as in both kingdoms Hadewijch sees “saints, all holy men, living and dead, all who are in heaven, and in purgatory, and on earth, each one...

... into our gender narrative. Nuns were understood throughout the medieval era as “brides of Christ,” and recent work exposes how this term was periodically applied to monks as well In Juana’s sermons, this trope is all the more intriguing when taken into conjunction with understanding Jesus as bigen...

..., 2024. 296 pp., 28 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [On the way marital travels of princely brides and grooms operated on a grand scale as diplomatic events.] Rothman, E. Natalie. The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism . Sustainable History Monograph...

...: typically a Saracen chooses death over a newly Christian life. In a striking example of the inextricable bodily link between Saracen race and Saracen masculinity, when the King of Tars becomes a Christian at the urging of his Christian bride, his skin is transformed...