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1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
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Presenting the past, 1875-2799 ; v. 1 |
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Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Failed chastity and Ovid : Myrrha in the Latin commentary tradition from Antiquity to the Renaissance / Frank T. Couslon -- Ambrose of Milan on chastity / Marcia L. Colish -- The prohibition of clerical marriage in the eleventh century / Uta-Renate Blumenthal -- An Arab Christian philosophical defense of religious celebacy against its Islamic condemnation : Yahyā ibn ʻAdî / Thérèse-Anne Druart -- Depictions of chastity : virtue made visible / Susan L'Engle -- What makes a marriage : consent or consummation in twelfth-century German literature / Claudia Bornholdt -- "The spirit of fornication, whom the children of the Hellenes used to call Eros" : problematizations of male homoeroticism in late antique monastic milieux / Cristian Gaspar -- The cry of Eden / Rafael Chodos |
| Summary |
Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures. The topic of Chastity, as well as its opposing characteristics, thus provides an arena for a discussion of the transmis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Chastity.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Sexuality.
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Chastity
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Ethik
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Keuschheit
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth)
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| ISBN |
9789047433415 |
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9047433416 |
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1283060906 |
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9781283060905 |
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9786613060907 |
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6613060909 |
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