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Borderline virginities : sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity / Sissel Undheim.
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Undheim, Sissel
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English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Description
224 pages ; 24 cm
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BR195.C45 U53 2018
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Subject(s)
Virginity
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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History of doctrines
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Early church, ca. 30-600
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Church history
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Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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Virgins
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Rome
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History
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Sancta virginitate: limits and border zones
Defining virginity
The Roman virgo
Virgo, virginitas and variations of chastity
Sacred virgins
Comparative virginiology: the echo of the Church Fathers
Fixity, flexity, and fluidity
Borderline virginities
Roman virginities. Between rhetorics, ideals, and "reality"
Virginity at the cultural turn
The Social Value of Virginity
Felices nuptae: virgin and bride
The social status of virgins
The social status of Vestal virgins
Christian virgins and the Roman aristocracy
Slave virgins?
Libertae
Redefining noble virginity?
The Virgin Effect
Roman virgins and religious rituals
Virginal protection 1
Virginal protection 2
Sacrificial imagery
Chosen by the gods?
A family affair? The problem of free will
Age of Virgins
The age of virgins at consecration
Those who belong to the kingdom of heaven
Epigraphic evidence and the age of virgins
The age of Vestals at captio: virgins and children
A due date for virginity?
Agency, age and the consecration of virgins
Virginal Insignia
The official dress of the Vestal virgins
"The garments of Christ"
De habitu virginum
or "how to recognize a virgin" 1
Virginal appearance
The young and noble virgins of Rome
Ungendering virginity? Virginal paradoxes and paradoxical virginities
Becoming male? Gender-bending "female" virgins
Male Virgins and Genderless Virginity
Male virgins in non-Christian sources?
Like angels on earth
Eunuchs and male virginity
Virginity, Humility and Male Authority
Virginity and clerical celibacy
Virgin Fathers of the Church?
Male virgins in funerary inscriptions
Just like a virgin?
De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins
The pontifex and the pope
Crime and Punishment
The name and nature of the crime: adultery and pollution
Crimen incesti
A context for the case of Primigenia?
Primigenia's crime
Susanna's fall
The spiritual sword and the living dead: punishment of unchaste Christian virgins
Whether willing or raped
Consequences of the crime
Negotiating death: death as metaphor and death an reality
Virginitatem Approbare
Fake virgins and feigned virginity
Locating virginity
Tangible evidence?
Virginity tests
or "how to recognize a virgin" 2
Acting the part: performativity and display
Losing What Cannot Ever Be Regained
A bodiless virginity? On flexity, fixity, and the identification of true virgins
Negotiating the value of virginity in Late Antiquity: borderline virgins and sacred virginity.
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ISBN
9781472480170 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1472480171 (hardback : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017003401
OCLC
989519621
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