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Borderline Virginities

By Sissel Undheim

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Borderline Virginities

By Sissel Undheim

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In Borderline Virginities Sissel Undheim analyses negotiations over what constituted virginity, and assesses its socio-religious value, in fourth-century Rome. The Church Fathers' texts on virginity are read in the context of a wide selection of sources from the period, revealing a range of seemingly paradoxical virgins, such as widow virgins, married virgins, infant virgins, male virgins, false virgins and fallen virgins. By examinations of these kinds of 'borderline virgins' Undheim demonstrates how physical, cultural and cognitive boundaries of virginity were contested, drawn and redrawn in the fourth and early fifth centuries in the Latin West.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2017-08-07
Publication Date:
2017-07-27
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472480171
ISBN13:
9781472480170
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
529 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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