Chastity: a study in perception, ideals, opposition

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Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures. The topic of Chast…

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Full title :Chastity : a study in perception, ideals, opposition / edited by Nancy Van Deusen.

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Publication Date:©2008.

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Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

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Description:1 online resource (211 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9789047433415, 9047433416, 1283060906, 9781283060905, 9786613060907, 6613060909
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004166714.i-211
oclc:ocn711003894
LC Classification:BJ1533.C4
Dewey Decimal:176

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