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Article: Medieval Virginities.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2005
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Medieval Virginities. Ed by ANKE BERNAU, RUTH EVANS, and SARAH SALIH. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003 xiv + 296 pp.; 9 plates. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7083-1763-4 (pbk 0-7083-172-6).
As Anke Bernau notes, Virginity always stands for something other or more than itself--it is a metaphor par excellence' (p. 220). The essays in this volume deploy a variety of approaches to the interpretation of virginity in medieval culture, but all are alert to the complexity of the central concept The Introduction: Virginities and Virginity Studies' (pp. 1-13), by Sarah Salih, Anke Bernau, and Ruth Evans, summarizes scholarly work to ...