They Hasten toward Perfection: Virginal & Chaste Monks in the High Middle Ages

They Hasten toward Perfection: Virginal & Chaste Monks in the High Middle Ages

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As perennial Christian ideals, virginity and chastity were frequent themes in medieval religious discourse. Male religious were frequently virgins and were expected to cultivate chastity; however, women not men were usually the focus of such discussions. But some monastic writers did draw on those...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheatham, Karen
Other Authors: Cochelin, Isabelle
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
medieval
high Middle Ages
monasticism
virginity
chastity
sexuality
gender
eleventh century
twelfth century
male virginity
monastic virginity
monastic chastity
Rupert of Deutz
Guibert of Nogent
Anselm of Canterbury
Aelred of Rievaulx
Bernard of Clairvaux
adolescence
childhood
masturbation
Cistercian
Benedictine
monastic education
De institutione inclusarum
Deploratio virginitatis male amissae
Opusculum ad virginitatem
De laesione virginitatis
0320
0581
0318
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32202

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