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I would also recommend Carolyn Muir's book: Saintly Brides and
Bridegrooms. The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art. Harvey
Miller 2012.
Best,
Meri
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Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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On 19.1.2015 15:51, Pat Cullum wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture You will find some useful contextual material on the use of
> Bride of Christ imagery as applied to men in Carolyn Diskant Muir's
> paper 'Bride or Bridegroom? Masculine Identity in Mystic Marriages' in
> /Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages /edited by myself and
> Katherine Lewis.
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> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:07:31 -0600
> From: Cyprian Rosen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Francis as bride of Christ
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:20:40 -0500
> From: Revd Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Francis as bride of Christ
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> I am curious to know the context that prompted this question. I have
> never come across reference to Francis as the bride of Christ; Yes,
> there is plenty of
> reference to Francis and his espousal to Lady Poverty and there is much
> later reference to Francis as "alter Christus", but "bride of Christ"
> is new to me.
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> Gordon Plumb
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> Greetings. I am curious whether the application of the "bride of
> Christ" model to Saint Francis was at all common, and if so, would
> greatly appreciate primary sources and/or scholarship discussing it.
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:33:24 +0000
> From: "Boon, Jessica A." <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Francis as bride of Christ
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> Thank you all for the instinctive response that this image is
> unexpected, as I thought it was but appreciate the confirmation.
>
> It occurs in a visionary sermon from the 1510s by Madre Juana de la Cruz
> of Cubas, Spain, abbess of a beaterio incorporated into the Franciscan
> order as Third Order, in the compilation _El Conhorte_. The sermon,
> attributed to Jesus speaking through Juana while she was in rapture, is
> for the feast day of St. Francis. During it, Francis and Jesus discuss
> being espoused and Francis is called his wife, then a page later Jesus
> goes on to want to marry all Franciscans.
>
> I suppose the broader question is really whether "bride of Christ" was
> ever a term applied to male religious of any order. I'm familiar with
> the re-gendering in which abbots posit themselves as mothers of their
> monks or passive/feminine in relation to God, but I don't know whether
> "bride of Christ" was ever applied across genders.
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> Thank you for any thoughts you might have!
> Jessica A. Boon
> Assistant Professor, Medieval/Early Modern Christianity
> Saunders 113, Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:20 AM, Revd Gordon Plumb
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> I am curious to know the context that prompted this question. I have
> never come across reference to Francis as the bride of Christ; Yes,
> there is plenty of
> reference to Francis and his espousal to Lady Poverty and there is much
> later reference to Francis as "alter Christus", but "bride of Christ" is
> new to me.
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