Menacing Virgins - Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Hardcover)


The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests.

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The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests.

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Imprint

University of Delaware Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

May 1999

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First published

May 1999

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Dimensions

164 x 242 x 21mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

246

ISBN-13

978-0-87413-649-4

Barcode

9780874136494

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LSN

0-87413-649-0



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