Free Download Chastity: A Study in Perception, Ideals, Opposition By Nancy Deusen
2008 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 9047433416 | PDF | 3 MB
Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures.

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