Gendered identities in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs
Subtitle: performing the bride
By: by Line Cecilie Engh
Series: Europa sacra -- volume 15; Europa sacra -- v. 15.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9782503550039
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Geschlechtsidentität; Bible; Sermones super Cantica Canticorum (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint); Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Geschlechtsunterschied; Gender identity in the Bible; Sources; Early works to 1800; Sermons; Women in the Bible; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender blending and gender crossing in premodern devotion; title: Erotic imagery and maternal imagery; title: configuring the bride; title: The mother, the virgin, and the bride; title: idealized femaleness; title: The feminized male; title: displacement, service, and humility; title: Inverting hierarchies, staging eschatology; title: unmaking and remaking worlds; title: Appropriation and unification; title: feminized man, divinized man; title: Conclusions: a world without women; title: the bride and the church reforms.