Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages

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

"Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested, and verified. Kelly analyzes a variety of medieval Western European texts, including medical treatises and their classical antecedents, an...

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Main Author: Kelly, Kathleen Coyne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Routledge research in medieval studies ; 2.
Subjects:
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 > History > To 1500.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Dinand Library

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Call Number: PN682.V56 K45 2000
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