Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages / / Kathleen Coyne Kelly

• Autore: Kelly Kathleen Coyne
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933538; 809/.93353
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Medieval - History and criticism; Virginity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christianity and literature - Europe - History - To 1500; Romances - History and criticism; Virginity in literature; Christian hagiography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Castitas/Virginitas; Hymenologies: The multiple signs of virginity; ~Armour of proof~: The virgin and the church in hagiography; ~Love's traces~: The lady and the test in vernacular romance; Oxymoronic bodies: Male virgins in hagiography and romance; Multiple virgins and contemporary virginities; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.
• Titolo autorizzato: Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages
• ISBN: 1-134-73755-6; 1-134-73756-4; 1-280-06954-6; 9786610069545; 0-203-46381-1; 0-203-25032-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818487703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in medieval studies ; ; 2.