Medieval Virginities
- ISBN-10
- 0802086373
- ISBN-13
- 9780802086372
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Authors
- Ruth Evans, Sarah Salih, Anke Bernau
Description
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.
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