Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780415221818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 208 str.

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Opis

The concept of virginity is developed within and across a number of different discourses in the Middle Ages: medical scientific treatises, patristic writings, and the medieval commentaries on them, legal records and literary texts. This book explores the representations of virginity and its verifications in these discourses to present a lucid study of the significance of virginity in the Middle Ages.

Spis treści

Introduction. Castitas/Virginitas 1. Hymenologies: the multiple signs of virginity 2. 'Armour of Proof': the virgin and the Church in hagiography 3. 'Love's Traces': the lady and test in romance 4. Oxymoronic bodies: male virgins in hagiography and romance 5. Multiple virgins and contemporary virginities

O autorze

Kathleen Coyne Kelly