Bride of God Mystical Marriage and Spiritual Ecstasy in Medieval Women's Lives

What if the most powerful voices in medieval Christianity were not kings, popes, or scholars, but women who claimed to speak directly with God?Bride of God: Mystical Marriage and Spiritual Ecstasy in Medieval Women's Lives invites readers into a hidden world where devotion became desire, prayer became encounter, and ordinary women rose to extraordinary influence.In an age often portrayed as rigid ...