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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 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 |
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Christian virgins and the Roman aristocracySlave 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 |
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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 Genderless Virginity; Male virgins in non-Christian sources?; Like angels on earth; Eunuchs and male virginity; Male Virgins and Genderless Virginity; Virginity and clerical celibacy; Virgin Fathers of the Church?; Male virgins in funerary inscriptions; Just like a virgin? |
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4 De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virginsThe 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; Virginitatem Approbare; Fake virgins and feigned virginity; Locating virginity; Tangible evidence? |
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Virginity tests -- or "how to recognize a virgin" 2Acting 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; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317173137 |
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1317173139 |
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