
Published online:
29 May 2014
Published in print:
30 November 2013
Online ISBN:
9781781706510
Print ISBN:
9780719090370
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Arthur Arthur
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The redemption of Red Cross The redemption of Red Cross
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Amendment of life Amendment of life
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The sacraments: Baptism The sacraments: Baptism
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The sacraments: Communion The sacraments: Communion
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The marriage analogy The marriage analogy
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Cite
Walls, Kathryn, 'The multiplication of Una', God's only daughter: Spenser's Una as the invisible Church (Manchester , 2013; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 29 May 2014), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090370.003.0009, accessed 14 May 2025.
Abstract
Once the independent trajectories of Una and Red Cross have coincided, Una is reflected in her companions. Arthur, too, epitomizes and signifies the invisible Church. As such, he becomes instrumental in the salvation of Red Cross. “Called to election” in canto viii, Red Cross (whose prior and formal baptism is intimated by the cross he has borne from the beginning) experiences the spiritual baptism of repentance in the House of Holiness, and also during his fight with the dragon. That Red Cross has become, as it were, another Una is implied by their quasi-marriage in canto xii, in a ceremony suggestive of the Sacrament of Communion.
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