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Borderline Virginities

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Borderline Virginities

By Sissel Undheim

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How and why did virginity come to play such a crucial part in the Christian Church in the formative and defining period of Late Antiquity? Sissel Undheim analyzes the negotiations over what constituted virginity and assesses its socio-religious value in fourth-century Rome by looking at those at the very margins of virginity and non-virginity. The Church Fathers' efforts to demarcate an exclusively Christian virginity, in contrast to the `false virgins' of their pagan adversaries, displays a ten...Show more

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9781472480170

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Borderline Virginities

Format

Hardcover

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