Virgin territory : configuring female virginity in early Christianity

Author(s)

• Kelto Lillis, Julia

Bibliographic Information

Virgin territory : configuring female virginity in early Christianity

Julia Kelto Lillis

（Christianity in late antiquity, 13）

University of California Press, c2023

• : cloth

Note

Summary: "Women'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"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 223-264

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BD0321579X
• ISBN:
  • 9780520389014
• LCCN: 2022016261
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oakland, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 273 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR195.C45
  • DC23 : 248.8/43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
  • LCSH : Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB23441731