Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages by Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

208 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 h...

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