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Eloquent Virgins - The Rhetoric of Virginity from Thecla to Joan of Arc (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
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Eloquent Virgins - The Rhetoric of Virginity from Thecla to Joan of Arc (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture
and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader,
these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they
could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they
also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan
of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own
extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the
virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and
liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.
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