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Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity Volume 13

by Julia Kelto Lillis

  • Hardback
  • 290 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 3.1 cm

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For students and scholars of early Church history.

Explores how early Christians defined female purity.

Helps you understand ancient roots of body imagery.

An enlightening historical study that examines how early Christian thinkers defined female virginity and influenced our view of the body.

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Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. 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 change 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.
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  • Title

    Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity Volume 13

  • Author

    Julia Kelto Lillis

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    December 2022

  • Weight

    586g

  • Page Count

    290

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520389014

  • ISBN-10

    0520389018

  • Eden Code

    5680932