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Routledge Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

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This scholarly work challenges conventional understandings of female virginity by examining how medieval Western European societies attempted to define, test and verify chastity. Drawing on medical treatises, classical texts, historical documents and legal records, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of virginity representations in saints' legends and medieval romances. The book extends its inquiry to contemporary culture, comparing historical approaches with modern depictions of virginity testing in fiction, television and film. Part of the Routledge Research in Medieval Studies series, this volume offers critical insights into the gap between the mythologised ideal of virginity and the complex reality of how these concepts were understood, performed and contested in medieval society.

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Examines medieval Western European medical treatises and classical antecedents to understand historical approaches to testing virginity and chastity.

Analyses representations of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances to challenge fixed definitions of virginity.

Compares medieval virginity testing practices with contemporary depictions in modern fiction, television and film to reveal cultural continuities.

Part of the Routledge Research in Medieval Studies series, providing scholarly peer-reviewed research on medieval cultural practices.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415221811
Category: Books > Subjects > LGBTQ+ Books > Literature & Fiction > Criticism & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 February 2000
Listed Since: 08 February 2007

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