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Early Modern Virginity

Early Modern Virginity. Sam Wescott. Catholic Virginity. Paul’s Warning - 1 Cor 7:25-40 Convents for Dowry-less Houses of Women Dubiously-Shaped Vegetables Brides of Christ. Protestant Chastity. Sacking of Monasteries Married Chastity Can’t be Called Twice New Marriage Ideal.

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Early Modern Virginity

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  1. Early Modern Virginity Sam Wescott

  2. Catholic Virginity • Paul’s Warning - 1 Cor 7:25-40 • Convents for Dowry-less • Houses of Women • Dubiously-Shaped Vegetables • Brides of Christ

  3. Protestant Chastity • Sacking of Monasteries • Married Chastity • Can’t be Called Twice • New Marriage Ideal

  4. Interregnum • Purity of Virginal Bodies • Rev 14:1-5 • State of Purity • Apocalyptical Power • Holy Human Extinction

  5. Physical Virginity • Dissection Dilemma • Ideological Need for Hymen • Secondary Signifiers • Vesalius • Coughing/Sneezing

  6. Chaste Maid in Cheapside • Moll as an Example of Secondary Signifiers (1.1.4-13) • Touchwood’s Wench as Marketplace Virginity (2.1.70-71)

  7. Measure for Measure • Convent as Resistance • Isabella as Queer / Non-Woman or Man? (2.4.136-140) • Ending as Punishment or Redirection

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