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Chastity : a study in perception, ideals, opposition /
Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures. The topic of Chastity, as well as its opposing characteristics, thus provides an arena for a discussion of the transmis. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047433415 9047433416 1283060906 9781283060905 9786613060907 6613060909 |
| ISSN: | 1875-2799 ; |