Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
- ABBREVIATIONS (page xiii)
- Introduction (page 3)
- ONE "A Place in the Middle": Intramarital Chastity as Theoretical Embarrassment and Provocation (page 16)
- TWO Spiritual Marriage as Insoluble Problem or Universal Nostrum? (page 51)
- THREE Eleventh‐Century Boundaries: The Spirit of Reform and the Cult of the Virgin King (page 94)
- FOUR The Conjugal Debt and Vows of Chastity: The Theoretical and Pastoral Discourse of the High and Later Middle Ages (page 132)
- FIVE Spiritual Marriage and the Penitential Ethos (page 195)
- SIX Virgin Wives (page 266)
- Conclusion (page 297)
- Appendixes (page 303)
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 321)
- INDEX (page 355)