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Virgin Territory : Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity by Julia Kelto Lillis (2022, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520389018

ISBN-139780520389014

eBay Product ID (ePID)2328294917

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Book TitleVirgin Territory : Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity

Number of Pages290 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicChristian Church / History, Christianity / History, Gender Studies, Sexuality & Gender Studies

Publication Year2022

GenreReligion, Social Science

AuthorJulia Kelto Lillis

Book SeriesChristianity in Late Antiquity Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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LCCN2022-016261

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAn exciting and essential addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on the body in antiquity.

Series Volume Number13

Dewey Decimal248.843

Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Notes to the Reader Abbreviations for Series and Reference Works Introduction: Ancient and Present-Day Meanings for Virginity PART ONE. Virginity with and without Virginal Anatomy 1. Testing, Showing, and Perceiving Virginity in Antiquity 2. Mary's Forms of Virginity in Early Christian Writings PART TWO. Christian Conceptualizations of Virginity in the Fourth Century 3. Virginity of Body and Soul: Fourth-Century Christian Configurations 4. Sealed Fountains: The Imagery of Fourth-Century Christian Virginity Discourse PART THREE. The Cost of Anatomized Virginity for Late Ancient Christians 5. Perceptible Virginity: Its Usefulness and Consequences 6. Augustine of Hippo and the Problem of Double Integrity Conclusion: Variety Persists Bibliography Index

SynopsisWomen's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Julia Kelto Lillis demonstrates that early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christians took part in a cross-cultural shift toward viewing virginity as something that could be perceived in women's sex organs. Treating virginity as anatomical brought both benefits and costs. By charting this shift and situating it in the larger landscape of ancient thought, Virgin Territory illuminates unrecognized differences among early Christian sources and historicizes problematic ideas about women's bodies that still persist today.

LC Classification NumberBR195.C45K45 2023