Sissel Undheim: 1 book
Borderline Virginities
Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
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 at the...
