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Author : Saint Ambrose (Bishop of Milan)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Virginity
ISBN : IND:39000000161179
Author : St. Gregory of Nyssa
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David Brakke
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042910801
This late ancient Christian treatise, preserved in Syriac and falsely attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373), exhorts female virgins to be "holy in body and spirit" (1 Cor. 7:34) and to abstain from "all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches" (1 John 1:16). Drawing on themes developed in the de virginitate literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, the author instructs virgins on their proper physical deportment and use of the five senses, but he incorporates into his work exhortations to purity and repentance originally addressed to a wider audience of male and female ascetics and perhaps even laity. Most likely a translation of a Greek original composed between the fifth and ninth centuries, the treatise is of interest also for its frequent and inventive use of the Bible in support of the ascetic ideal.
Author : Saint Gregory of Nyssa,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The object of this treatise is to create in its readers a passion for the life according to excellence. There are many distractions , to use the word of the Divine Apostle, incident to the secular life; and so this treatise would suggest, as a necessary door of entrance to the holier life, the calling of Virginity; seeing that, while it is not easy in the entanglements of this secular life to find quiet for that of Divine contemplation, those on the other hand who have bid farewell to its troubles can with promptitude, and without distraction, pursue assiduously their higher studies.
Author : Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780818914003
Author : Saint John Chrysostom,Sally Rieger Shore,Elizabeth Ann Clark
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015008462981
This is an English translation of these treatises. The work is also introduced by Elizabeth Clark, who sets forth the context of the treatises and makes an extended comparison between John's teaching and that of Paul in 1 Corinthians.
Author : Michael Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190845919
Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.
Author : Sarah Salih
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859916226
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
Author : C. Harol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781403983657
Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
Author : Bonnie MacLachlan,Judith Fletcher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802090133
From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her body. Sexual potency withheld becomes an energy-reservoir that can ensure independence and enhance self-esteem, but it can also be harnessed by public institutions and redirected for the common good. This was the founding principle of the Vestal Virgins of Rome and later in the monastic orders of the middle ages. Mythical accounts of goddesses and heroines who possessed the ability to recover their virginity after sexual experience demonstrate a belief that virginity is paradoxically connected both with social autonomy and the ability to serve the human community. Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.
Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134589081
From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of anorexia. Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what we should call‘normal’ behaviour. This is a fascinating and clear account which will prove invaluable not just to students of classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals also.
Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134737550
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
Author : Laura Carpenter
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814716533
Includes information on abstinence, abstinence focused sex education, African Americans, Asian Americans, birth control, born again virginity, chastity, coming out, conservative Christians, definitions of virginity loss, double standard, Latinos, Latinas, oral sex, race, ethnicity, rape, religion, secondary virginity, stigma, technical virginity, etc.
Author : Eyitayo Adenuga
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557352173
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400445158