Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Title Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2002-11-01
Genre History
ISBN 1134737556

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This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Title Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher Routledge
Pages 208
Release 2002-11
Genre History
ISBN 1134737564

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This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.

Women of the Gilte Legende

Women of the Gilte Legende
Title Women of the Gilte Legende PDF eBook
Author Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 166
Release 2003
Genre Christian women saints
ISBN 9780859917711

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This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE

Medieval Virginities

Medieval Virginities
Title Medieval Virginities PDF eBook
Author Ruth Evans
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 318
Release 2003-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780802086372

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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.

Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Title Misconceptions About the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Stephen Harris
Publisher Routledge
Pages 309
Release 2010-05-26
Genre History
ISBN 1135986673

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Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
Title Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher Routledge
Pages 265
Release 2016-05-13
Genre Education
ISBN 1317082338

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Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume argues that along with the popular press, the early modern stage is also a key pedagogical site and that education”performed and performative”plays a central role in gender construction. The wealth of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed and manuscript documents devoted to education (parenting guides, conduct books, domestic manuals, catechisms, diaries, and autobiographical writings) encourages examination of how education contributed to the formation of gendered and hierarchical structures, as well as the production, reproduction, and performance of masculinity and femininity. In examining both dramatic and non-dramatic texts via aspects of performance theory, this collection explores the ways education instilled formal academic knowledge, but also elucidates how educational practices disciplined students as members of their social realm, citizens of a nation, and representatives of their gender.

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Title Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance PDF eBook
Author Amy Burge
Publisher Springer
Pages 289
Release 2017-02-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137593563

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This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.