Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
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guillaume
hagiography analysis
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Lai Du Cor
legal history medieval
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Malory's Morte Darthur
Malory’s Morte Darthur
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Spiritual Chastity
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415221818
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
