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Virginitas

An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal

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  • © 1975

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Authors:
  1. John Bugge
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Part of the book series: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor (ARMI, volume 17)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • John Bugge
    Pages 1-4

  3. Sexuality and the Fall of Man

    • John Bugge
    Pages 5-29

  4. Virginity and the Monastic Economy of Perfection

    • John Bugge
    Pages 30-58

  5. Sponsa Christi: Virginity and Epithalamian Mystery

    • John Bugge
    Pages 59-79

  6. Virginity Sexualized

    • John Bugge
    Pages 80-110

  7. Surviving Elements of Christian Gnosis

    • John Bugge
    Pages 111-133

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 134-168
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About this book

A preface is best written last, after a book is done and its author may look back to survey what he hopes he has accomplished and what he must admit he has not. In hindsight virginity by itself has seemed a very large field to till, but with that reflection also comes a sense of the awareness that a really comprehensive treatment of misgiving, that subject would somehow have to encompass an enormous ter­ rain, the whole length and breadth of Christianity's attitude toward sexuality from the earliest times down to the high Middle Ages. It could be argued that no small book could cover so much ground, and I would be the first to agree. As its subtitle is meant to suggest, the present work is, in at least two senses of the word, an essay: both an initial and tentative effort to get at the meaning of an extremely important but as yet unprobed medieval belief in the perfective value of the virginal life; and an interpretive study of a complex subject from a limited point of view, specifically, that in which the virgin appears in devotional literature as the bride of Christ.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Virginitas

  • Book Subtitle: An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal

  • Authors: John Bugge

  • Series Title: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1644-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1697-5Published: 30 September 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1644-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 168

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language

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