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Menacing virgins : representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Title: Menacing virgins : representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie.
Publication: Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1999.

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246 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-240) and index.

Contents

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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JFE 99-14279

ISBN

0874136490

LCCN

98019983

OCLC

38976247

Title

Menacing virgins : representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie.

Imprint

Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-240) and index.

Added Author

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.

Leslie, Marina.

Research Call Number

JFE 99-14279

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