Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
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Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Book Details
- Author
- Kathleen Coyne Kelly
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415221818
- ISBN-10
- 0415221811
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ISBN: 0415221811
Author: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne
Condition: New
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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