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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812323903321

Titolo

Chastity [[electronic resource] ] : a study in perception, ideals, opposition / / edited by Nancy Van Deusen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2008

ISBN

1-283-06090-6

9786613060907

90-474-3341-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Presenting the past : central issues in medieval and early modern studies across the disciplines, , 1875-2799 ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

Van DeusenNancy (Nancy Elizabeth)

Disciplina

176

Soggetti

Chastity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / N. Van Deusen -- Introduction -- Failed Chastity And Ovid: Myrrha In The Latin Commentary Tradition From Antiquity To The Renaissance / Frank T. Coulson -- Ambrose Of Milan On Chastity / Marcia L. Colish -- The Prohibition Of Clerical Marriage In The Eleventh Century / Uta-Renate Blumenthal -- An Arab Christian Philosophical Defense Of Religious Celibacy Against Its Islamic Condemnation: Yahyā Ibn ‘adī / Thérèse-Anne Druart -- Depictions Of Chastity: Virtue Made Visible / Susan L’Engle -- What Makes A Marriage: Consent Or Consummation In Twelfth-Century German Literature / Claudia Bornholdt -- “The Spirit Of Fornication, Whom The Children Of The Hellenes Used To Call Eros”: Male Homoeroticism And The Rhetoric Of Chastity In The Letters Of Nilus Of Ancyra / Cristian Gaspar -- The Cry Of Eden / Rafael Chodos -- Index / N. Van Deusen.

Sommario/riassunto

Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures. The topic of Chastity, as well as its opposing characteristics, thus provides



an arena for a discussion of the transmission of Ovid and the commentaries this author provoked in the Middle Ages, the interpretation of images illustrating legal texts, cross-cultural enquiries, such as the reciprocity between Christian, Muslim, and Judaic interpretations of temperance, continence, and abstinence, and the theological-legal issue of “God’s rights” (in excising Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden). Contributors: Nancy van Deusen; Frank T. Coulson; Marcia L. Colish; Uta-Renate Blumenthal; Thérèse-Anne Druart; Claudia Bornholdt; Susan L’Engle; Cristian Gaspar; and Rafael Chodos.