Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

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  • Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
  • Release Date : 2002-11-01
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 210
  • ISBN 13 : 1134737556
  • File Size : 12,12 MB
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Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages by Kathleen Coyne Kelly PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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