Format:
1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781317173137
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction. Sancta virginitate: limits and border zones -- Defining virginity -- The Roman virgo -- Virgo, virginitas and variations of chastity -- Sacred virgins -- Comparative virginiology: the echo of the Church Fathers -- Fixity, flexity, and fluidity -- Borderline virginities -- 2 Roman virginities. Between rhetorics, ideals, and "reality" -- Virginity at the cultural turn -- The Social Value of Virginity -- Felices nuptae: virgin and bride -- The social status of virgins -- The social status of Vestal virgins -- Christian virgins and the Roman aristocracy -- Slave virgins? -- Libertae -- Redefining noble virginity? -- The Virgin Effect -- Roman virgins and religious rituals -- Virginal protection 1 -- Virginal protection 2 -- Sacrificial imagery -- Chosen by the gods? -- A family affair? The problem of free will -- Age of Virgins -- The age of virgins at consecration -- Those who belong to the kingdom of heaven -- Epigraphic evidence and the age of virgins -- The age of Vestals at captio: virgins and children -- A due date for virginity? -- Agency, age and the consecration of virgins -- Virginal Insignia -- The official dress of the Vestal virgins -- "The garments of Christ" -- De habitu virginum - or "how to recognize a virgin" 1 -- Virginal appearance -- The young and noble virgins of Rome -- 3 Ungendering virginity? Virginal paradoxes and paradoxical virginities -- Becoming male? Gender-bending "female" virgins -- Male Virgins and Genderless Virginity -- Male virgins in non-Christian sources? -- Like angels on earth -- Eunuchs and male virginity -- Male Virgins and Genderless Virginity -- Virginity and clerical celibacy -- Virgin Fathers of the Church? -- Male virgins in funerary inscriptions -- Just like a virgin?
Content:
4 De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins -- The pontifex and the pope -- Crime and Punishment -- The name and nature of the crime: adultery and pollution -- Crimen incesti -- A context for the case of Primigenia? -- Primigenia's crime -- Susanna's fall -- The spiritual sword and the living dead: punishment of unchaste Christian virgins -- Whether willing or raped -- Consequences of the crime -- Negotiating death: death as metaphor and death as reality -- Virginitatem Approbare -- Fake virgins and feigned virginity -- Locating virginity -- Tangible evidence? -- Virginity tests - or "how to recognize a virgin" 2 -- Acting the part: performativity and display -- Losing What Cannot Ever Be Regained -- A bodiless virginity? On flexity, fixity, and the identification of true virgins -- Negotiating the value of virginity in Late Antiquity: borderline virgins and sacred virginity -- Bibliography -- Primary sources: translations and editions -- Secondary sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781472480170
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Undheim, Sissel, 1974 - Borderline virginities London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 9781472480170
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jungfräulichkeit
;
Frühchristentum
;
Spätantike
;
Jungfräulichkeit
;
Frühchristentum
;
Spätantike
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