Borderline virginities : sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity /
"How and why did virginity come to play such a crucial part in the Christian Church in the formative and defining period of Late Antiquity? Sissel Undheim analyzes the negotiations over what constituted virginity and assesses its socio-religious value in fourth-century Rome by looking at those...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Undheim, Sissel
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2017
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| Edition: | First [edition] |
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