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Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity

Sissel Undheim

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Description:The starting point of this study is the Latin Church Fathers apologetic comparisons between Christian sacred virgins and the Vestal virgins of pagan Roman cult. The Church Fathers efforts to demarcate an exclusively Christian virginity in contrast to the false virgins of their adversaries display a tension that, it is argued here, played a larger role in the construction of a specifically Christian sacred virginity than previous studies have acknowledged. Late fourth century Christian theologians persistent appraisal of sacred virgins paved the way for a wide variety of virgins that often challenged the stereotype of the unmarried female virgin . Textual sources from the period abound with more or less paradoxical virgins, and provide us with virgin widows, virgin mothers, virgin martyrs, slave virgins, aristocratic virgins, divine virgins, male virgins and fallen virgins. By examinations of these kinds of borderline virgins as they appear in a range of textual sources from different genres, this book offers new insight into how fourth-century notions of sacred virginity were construed and negotiated in the Latin west of Late Antiquity."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. To get started finding Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The starting point of this study is the Latin Church Fathers apologetic comparisons between Christian sacred virgins and the Vestal virgins of pagan Roman cult. The Church Fathers efforts to demarcate an exclusively Christian virginity in contrast to the false virgins of their adversaries display a tension that, it is argued here, played a larger role in the construction of a specifically Christian sacred virginity than previous studies have acknowledged. Late fourth century Christian theologians persistent appraisal of sacred virgins paved the way for a wide variety of virgins that often challenged the stereotype of the unmarried female virgin . Textual sources from the period abound with more or less paradoxical virgins, and provide us with virgin widows, virgin mothers, virgin martyrs, slave virgins, aristocratic virgins, divine virgins, male virgins and fallen virgins. By examinations of these kinds of borderline virgins as they appear in a range of textual sources from different genres, this book offers new insight into how fourth-century notions of sacred virginity were construed and negotiated in the Latin west of Late Antiquity."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. To get started finding Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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