Chastity : a study in perception, ideals, opposition / / edited by Nancy Van Deusen.
Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well...
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| Superior document: | Presenting the past : central issues in medieval and early modern studies across the disciplines, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Materials / N. Van Deusen
- Introduction
- Failed Chastity And Ovid: Myrrha In The Latin Commentary Tradition From Antiquity To The Renaissance / Frank T. Coulson
- Ambrose Of Milan On Chastity / Marcia L. Colish
- The Prohibition Of Clerical Marriage In The Eleventh Century / Uta-Renate Blumenthal
- An Arab Christian Philosophical Defense Of Religious Celibacy Against Its Islamic Condemnation: Yahyā Ibn ‘adī / Thérèse-Anne Druart
- Depictions Of Chastity: Virtue Made Visible / Susan L’Engle
- What Makes A Marriage: Consent Or Consummation In Twelfth-Century German Literature / Claudia Bornholdt
- “The Spirit Of Fornication, Whom The Children Of The Hellenes Used To Call Eros”: Male Homoeroticism And The Rhetoric Of Chastity In The Letters Of Nilus Of Ancyra / Cristian Gaspar
- The Cry Of Eden / Rafael Chodos
- Index / N. Van Deusen.