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- Author: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 0415758246
- ISBN-13: 9780415758246
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 0415758246
- ISBN-13: 9780415758246
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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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