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Virgin Territory : Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity /
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Julia Kelto Lillis demonstrates that early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Christianity in Late Antiquity ;
13 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES TO THE READER
- ABBREVIATIONS FOR SERIES AND REFERENCE WORKS
- Introduction: Ancient and Present-Day Meanings for Virginity
- Part one. Virginity with and without Virginal Anatomy
- Chapter 1 Testing, Showing, and Perceiving Virginity in Antiquity
- Chapter 2 Mary's Forms of Virginity in Early Christian Writings
- Part two. Christian Conceptualizations of Virginity in the Fourth Century
- Chapter 3 Virginity of Body and Soul: Fourth-Century Christian Configurations
- Chapter 4 Sealed Fountains: The Imagery of Fourth-Century Christian Virginity Discourse
- Part three. The Cost of Anatomized Virginity for Late Ancient Christians
- Chapter 5 Perceptible Virginity: Its Usefulness and Consequences
- Chapter 6 Augustine of Hippo and the Problem of Double Integrity
- Conclusion: Variety Persists
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX