Author: | Ruth Evans,Edited by Anke Bernau,Anke Bernau,Sarah Salih |
Subcategory: | Europe |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | University Of Wales Press (January 2003) |
Pages: | 256 pages |
Category: | History |
Rating: | 4.2 |
Other formats: | mbr doc mobi lit |
Publication Name: Medieval Virginities, ed. by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans and Sarah Salih, pp. 213-33.
Reading Thomas Elyot’s Dictionary, this essay examines the legacy of medieval chronicle and fable for the early modern period more. Publication Name: Medieval Virginities, ed. ‘ Virginal Effects: Text and Identity in Ancrene Wisse' more. Publication Date: 2002. Publication Name: Gender and Holiness, ed. by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih, pp. 36-48. Conference Presentations.
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Anke Bernau, Sarah Salih, Ruth Evans. From Joan of Arc to Britney Spears, the figure of the virgin has been the subject of considerable scholarly and popular interest.
Anke Bernau, Sarah Salih, Ruth Evans. Yet virginity itself is a paradoxical condition, both perfect and monstrous, present and absent, often visible only insofar as it is under threat. Medieval Virginities traces some of the specific manifestations of virginity in late medieval culture
Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in questions of gender identity, conceptions of the body, subjectivity, truth and representation in medieval culture.
Medieval Virginities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Mary Dockray-Miller (a1). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009. Export citation Request permission.
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