Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134737550
• Artikelnr.: 47887408

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Inhaltsangabe

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