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Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

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  • 208 sidor
  • 2000
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.
  • Författare: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
  • Illustratör: black & white illustrations
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780415221818
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2000-02-01
  • Förlag: Routledge