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The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife mutually and voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, plays an important role in the development of the institution of marriage and in the understanding of female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Europe --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- Church history --- Abelard. --- Adalbert (deacon of Bamberg). --- Aelred of Rievaulx. --- Alan of Lille. --- Alphonse of Pecha. --- Amon of Nitria. --- Apostolic Canons. --- Arnold of Villanova. --- Barlow, Frank. --- Bede the Venerable. --- Beguines. --- Bernard of Clairvaux. --- Bolton, Brenda. --- Burrus, Virginia. --- Bynum, Caroline Walker. --- Caesarius of Heisterbach. --- Catherine of Bologna. --- Charlemagne (emperor). --- Chiarito del Voglia. --- Chrysostom, John. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Collectio Seguntina. --- Conrad of Piacenza. --- Daniélou, Jean. --- Desert Fathers. --- Domitilla (martyr). --- Ebernand von Erfurt. --- Eddius Stephanus. --- Elizabeth of Hungary. --- Euchites. --- Fliche, Augustin. --- Flodoard of Rheims. --- Fortunatus, Venantius. --- Gangulf (martyr). --- Geneviève of Brabant. --- Gentile of Ravenna. --- Gilbert of Sempringham. --- Gnosticism. --- Hali Medenhad. --- Handlyng Synne. --- Historia Compostellana. --- Ida of Bologne. --- Isidore of Seville. --- Jacobilli, Luigi. --- James Oldo. --- John the Baptist. --- Kieckhefer, Richar. --- Landulf the Senior. --- Lawrence (martyr). --- Lyndwood, William. --- anticlericalism. --- courtly love.