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Menacing virgins :

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Menacing virgins :

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representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance /

edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie

246 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-240) and index

Introduction: the epistemology of virginity / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie -- pt. 1. Virginity in the middle ages. "Blæju Þöll -- young fir of the bed-clothes": Skaldic seduction / William Sayers ; Rhetoric, power, and integrity in the passion of the virgin martyr / Maud Burnett McInerney ; King by day, queen by night: the virgin Camille in the Roman d'Eneas / Wendy Chapman Peek -- Diana's "Bowe Ybroke": impotence, desire, and virginity in Chaucer's Parliament of fowls / Kathryn L. Lynch ; Menaced masculinity and imperiled virginity in Malory's Morte Darthur / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- pt. 2. Virginity in the renaissance. Il trionfo della pudicizia: menacing virgins in Italian renaissance domestic painting / Cristelle L. Baskins ; Metaphor and the mystification of chastity in Vives's Instruction of a christen woman / Nancy Weitz Miller ; Figuring chastity: Milton's Ludlow masque / Lauren Shohet ; Lost honor and torn veils: a virgin's rape in music / Lydia Hamessley ; Evading rape and embracing empire in Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity / Marina Leslie

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"The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing."--BOOK JACKET. "To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted."--Jacket

Menacing virgins.

European literature-- Renaissance, 1450-1600-- History and criticism

Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism

Virginity in literature

Literature-- history

Sexual Abstinence-- in art

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne

Leslie, Marina

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