Titlebook: Virginitas; An Essay in the Hist John Bugge Book 1975 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1975 Medieval Literature.concept.economy.history

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Book 1975an initial and tentative effort to get at the meaning of an extremely important but as yet unprobed medieval belief in the perfective value of the virginal life; and an interpretive study of a complex subject from a limited point of view, specifically, that in which the virgin appears in devotional literature as the bride of Christ.

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: Virginity and Epithalamian Mystery,stinct sources concurrently: the ?ερο? γ?μο? of the mystery religions, the Hebrew concept of the marriage of God with His people Israel, and the soul-nuptials in Plato’s ... In any case the notion was common in nearly all the various forms of dualistic belief that flourished in the Near East around the time of Christ.

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Surviving Elements of Christian Gnosis,ccasional allusions to it remain. The attitude toward normal sexuality in ., for instance, is grossly encratistic, rather more reminiscent of Tatian than even Jerome. The author counsels the bride of Christ to

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Introduction,f monasticism to which the ideal of virginity has remained, now as always, directly relevant.. This book will therefore seek to explore the meaning of virginity in the ascetic philosophy of medieval monasticism.

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Sexuality and the Fall of Man,tive character of virginity is intertwined with the mysteries of the creation, man’s primal life in a garden of innocence, and an original transgression. Christianity has always been heedful of the way things were in the Beginning, and perhaps this systematic concern reflects a basal tendency in all

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: Virginity and Epithalamian Mystery,ertullian.. In the fourth century Athanasius asserts that virgins are “customarily” called brides of Christ, while Ambrose says that “a virgin is one who gives her hand in marriage to God.”. Nevertheless, the ultimate origin of the . motif must be sought at least in part within pagan gnosticism, whe

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Virginity Sexualized,other themes conventionally associated with the cloister. The medieval monastic ethos, which sprang from Christian gnosis and drew upon that tradition periodically at times of reform, often found itself at odds with an Augustinian theological tradition whose presuppositions it did not share. Had Chr