Borderline virginities : sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity / Sissel Undheim.

Author
Undheim, Sissel [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781472480170 (hardback : alkaline paper)
    • 1472480171 (hardback : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2017003401
    OCLC
    989519621
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