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Menacing Virgins
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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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
The Disease of Virgins
Language: en
Pages: 630
Authors: Helen King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. U
Virginity Revisited
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Bonnie MacLachlan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 Weste
Arcana Coelestia
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Emanuel Swedenborg
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1879 - Publisher:

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