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Virgin Territory : Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity
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Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspec...
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christians took part in a cross-cultural shift toward viewing virginity as something that could be perceived in women's sex organs. Treating virginity as anatomical brought both benefits and costs. By charting th.
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- English
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022
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- 1 online resource (325 pages)
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- 0520389018, 0520389026, 9780520389014, 9780520389021
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- on1348490880
- 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