Medieval Virginities
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Medieval Virginities
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Author : Ruth Evans
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Medieval Virginities written by Ruth Evans and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
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
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Author : Sarah Salih
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001
Versions Of Virginity In Late Medieval England written by Sarah Salih and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
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.
Menacing Virgins
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1999
Menacing Virgins written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with History categories.
This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.
Impotence And Virginity In The Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Court Of York
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Author : Bronach Christina Kane
language : en
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Release Date : 2008
Impotence And Virginity In The Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Court Of York written by Bronach Christina Kane and has been published by Borthwick Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Church records and registers categories.
Virgins
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Author : Anke Bernau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Virgins written by Anke Bernau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Virginity categories.
Witty and thought-provoking, 'Virgins' reveals virginity's changing cultural significance throughout its long history, and its enduring power in contemporary society.
Virginitas
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Author : M. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-29
Virginitas written by M. Murray and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-29 with Philosophy categories.
A preface is best written last, after a book is done and its author may look back to survey what he hopes he has accomplished and what he must admit he has not. In hindsight virginity by itself has seemed a very large field to till, but with that reflection also comes a sense of the awareness that a really comprehensive treatment of misgiving, that subject would somehow have to encompass an enormous ter rain, the whole length and breadth of Christianity's attitude toward sexuality from the earliest times down to the high Middle Ages. It could be argued that no small book could cover so much ground, and I would be the first to agree. As its subtitle is meant to suggest, the present work is, in at least two senses of the word, an essay: both an initial and tentative effort to get at the meaning of an extremely important but as yet unprobed medieval belief in the perfective value of the virginal life; and an interpretive study of a complex subject from a limited point of view, specifically, that in which the virgin appears in devotional literature as the bride of Christ.
Constructions Of Widowhood And Virginity In The Middle Ages
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Author : Cindy L. Carlson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Constructions Of Widowhood And Virginity In The Middle Ages written by Cindy L. Carlson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Chastity in literature categories.
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. For example, chastity is an apparent given for both positions, but the chastity involved may have a number of possible cultural meanings or uses.
Property And Virginity
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Author : Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2010-05-31
Property And Virginity written by Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-31 with History categories.
Christianity changed the culture and society of Iceland, as it also did in other parts of Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One of the important areas of change involved the introduction of new rules on the legal requirements for marriage. Property and Virginity examines Icelandic law codes, marriage contracts, and other documents related to court proceedings. Based on extensive source material never researched before, this pioneer study explores the very gradual Christianization of marriage in Iceland. It shows that this process, which lasted for hundreds of years, had consequences for family and kinship politics, for inheritance and property transfer, and for gender relations. As canon law began to change the old ritual of betrothal, the virginal state of the woman entering marriage gained greater importance. At the same time, marriage in the Late Middle Ages continued to include many elements of its older understanding as a contract concerning property transfer between families. A new perception of gender relations also arose, whereby women became partners in the actual contract-making. The 'handshake' was now between the husband and wife, instead of between the father of the bride and her future husband. The rituals connected to the different bonds gained new meaning: marriage was no longer a financial matter alone, but also involved religious beliefs and a closer union of the spouses.
The Medieval Hero On Screen
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Author : Martha W. Driver
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-07-01
The Medieval Hero On Screen written by Martha W. Driver and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes. This collection of essays about the medieval hero on screen, contributed by scholars from a variety of disciplines, draws upon a wide range of movies and medieval texts. The essays are grouped into five sections, each with an introduction by the editors: an exploration of historic authenticity; heroic children and the lessons they convey to young viewers; medieval female heroes; the place of the hero's weapon in pop culture; and teaching the medieval movie in the classroom. Thirty-two film stills illustrate the work, and each essay includes notes, a filmography, and a bibliography. There is a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum, and an index is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.