Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages - Brossura

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415758246 ISBN 13: 9780415758246

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415758246
• ISBN 13: 9780415758246
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208