Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Castitas/Virginitas
Chapter 1. Hymenologies: the Multiple Signs of Virginity
Chapter 2. "Armour of Proof": The Virgin and the Church in
Hagiography
Chapter 3. "Love's Traces": The Lady and the Test in Romance
Chapter 4. Oxymoronic Bodies: Male Virgins in Hagiography
and Romance
Chapter 5. Multiple Virgins and Contemporary Virginities

Bibliography
Index

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