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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008.
Colección:Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Failed chastity and Ovid : Myrrha in the Latin commentary tradition from Antiquity to the Renaissance / Frank T. Couslon
  • Ambrose of Milan on chastity / Marcia L. Colish
  • The prohibition of clerical marriage in the eleventh century / Uta-Renate Blumenthal
  • An Arab Christian philosophical defense of religious celebacy against its Islamic condemnation : Yahyā ibn ʻAdî / Thérèse-Anne Druart
  • Depictions of chastity : virtue made visible / Susan L'Engle
  • What makes a marriage : consent or consummation in twelfth-century German literature / Claudia Bornholdt
  • "The spirit of fornication, whom the children of the Hellenes used to call Eros" : problematizations of male homoeroticism in late antique monastic milieux / Cristian Gaspar
  • The cry of Eden / Rafael Chodos.