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Title:

Menacing virgins : representing virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

246 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
Virginity in literature.

Other Authors:

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.
Leslie, Marina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-240) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the epistemology of virginity / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie -- pt. 1. Virginity in the middle ages. "Blæju Þöll - young fir of the bed-clothes": Skaldic seduction / William Sayers ; Rhetoric, power, and integrity in the passion of the virgin martyr / Maud Burnett McInerney ; King by day, queen by night: the virgin Camille in the Roman d'Eneas / Wendy Chapman Peek -- Diana's "Bowe Ybroke": impotence, desire, and virginity in Chaucer's Parliament of fowls / Kathryn L. Lynch ; Menaced masculinity and imperiled virginity in Malory's Morte Darthur / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- pt. 2. Virginity in the renaissance. Il trionfo della pudicizia: menacing virgins in Italian renaissance domestic painting / Cristelle L. Baskins ; Metaphor and the mystification of chastity in Vives's Instruction of a christen woman / Nancy Weitz Miller ; Figuring chastity: Milton's Ludlow masque / Lauren Shohet ; Lost honor and torn veils: a virgin's rape in music / Lydia Hamessley ; Evading rape and embracing empire in Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity / Marina Leslie.

ISBN:

9780874136494
0874136490

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38976247

LCCN:

98019983

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)