Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and RenaissanceKathleen Coyne Kelly, Marina Leslie University of Delaware Press, 1999 - 246 من الصفحات The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted. |
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The Epistemology of Virginity | 15 |
Virginity in the Middle Ages | 29 |
Skaldic Seduction | 31 |
Rhetoric Power and Integrity in the Passion of the Virgin Martyr | 50 |
The Virgin Camille in the Roman dEneas | 71 |
Impotence Desire and Virginity in Chaucers Parliament of Fowls | 83 |
Menaced Masculinity and Imperiled Virginity in the Morte Darthur | 97 |
Menacing Virgins in Italian Renaissance Domestic Painting | 117 |
Metaphor and the Mystification of Chastity in Vivess Instruction of a Christen Woman | 132 |
Miltons Ludlow Masque | 146 |
A Virgins Rape in Music | 165 |
Evading Rape and Embracing Empire in Margaret Cavendishs Assaulted and Pursued Chastity | 179 |
Notes | 198 |
Contributors | 239 |
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