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Borderline virginities : sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity / Sissel Undheim

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Undheim, Sissel
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Physical Description
xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm

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Machine generated contents note: 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 Cenderless Virginity -- Male virgins in non-Christian sources? -- Like angels on earth -- Eunuchs and male virginity -- Virginity, Humility and Male Authority -- Virginity and clerical celibacy -- Virgin Fathers of the Church? -- Male virgins in funerary inscriptions -- Just like a virgin? -- 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 -- Vircinitatem 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.
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ISBN
9781472480170 hardback alkaline paper
1472480171 hardback alkaline paper
9781315569734 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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