Medieval Virginities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Virginities write by Ruth Evans. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Medieval Virginities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England write by Sarah Salih. This book was released on 2001. Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages write by Kathleen Coyne Kelly. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Menacing Virgins
Menacing Virgins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Menacing Virgins write by Kathleen Coyne Kelly. This book was released on 1999. Menacing Virgins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages write by Cindy L. Carlson. This book was released on 2000-01-06. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas open to debate, constructions that did and still do create and question notions of gender roles, areas of power, and areas of disability. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions; the body and what it means to make it visible, whether in admiration, torture, or martyrdom; issues of physicality and abjection; creations of literary voice for women who write or create situations for them to be written about. A distinguished group of female scholars examine the meanings behind widowhood and virginity both individually and in relation to each other. The focus on both positions in the same volume makes Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages an unprecedented work.
