In Borderline Virginities Sissel Undheim analyses negotiations over what constituted virginity, and assesses its socio-religious value, in fourth-century Rome. The Church Fathers' texts on virginity are read in the context of a wide selection of sources from the period, revealing a range of seemingly paradoxical virgins, such as widow virgins, married virgins, infant virgins, male virgins, false virgins and fallen virgins. By examinations of these kinds of 'borderline virgins' Undheim demonstrates how physical, cultural and cognitive boundaries of virginity were contested, drawn and redrawn in the fourth and early fifth centuries in the Latin West.…mehr
In Borderline Virginities Sissel Undheim analyses negotiations over what constituted virginity, and assesses its socio-religious value, in fourth-century Rome. The Church Fathers' texts on virginity are read in the context of a wide selection of sources from the period, revealing a range of seemingly paradoxical virgins, such as widow virgins, married virgins, infant virgins, male virgins, false virgins and fallen virgins. By examinations of these kinds of 'borderline virgins' Undheim demonstrates how physical, cultural and cognitive boundaries of virginity were contested, drawn and redrawn in the fourth and early fifth centuries in the Latin West.
Sissel Undheim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her academic work focuses on sacred virginity in antiquity and Late Antiquity, and she has published various articles on this topic, as well as on New Age religion and the didactics of religion. She has edited a collection of translated texts on Roman religion for the Norwegian series Verdens Hellige Skrifter (Sacred Texts of the World).
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Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction. Sancta virginitate: limits and border zones 2. Roman virginities. Between rhetorics, ideals and "reality" 2.1. The social value of virginity 2.2 The virgin effect 2.3 Age of virgins 2.4 Virginal insignia 3. Ungendering virginity? Virginal paradoxes and paradoxical virginities 3.1 Male virgins and genderless virginity 3.2 Virginity, humility and male authority 4 De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins 4.1 Crime and punishment 4.2 Virginitatem approbare 4.3 Losing what cannot ever be regained Bibliography Primary sources: translations and editions Secondary sources
Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction. Sancta virginitate: limits and border zones 2. Roman virginities. Between rhetorics, ideals and "reality" 2.1. The social value of virginity 2.2 The virgin effect 2.3 Age of virgins 2.4 Virginal insignia 3. Ungendering virginity? Virginal paradoxes and paradoxical virginities 3.1 Male virgins and genderless virginity 3.2 Virginity, humility and male authority 4 De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins 4.1 Crime and punishment 4.2 Virginitatem approbare 4.3 Losing what cannot ever be regained Bibliography Primary sources: translations and editions Secondary sources
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