The role of vestal virgins in Roman civic religion
Subtitle: a structuralist study of the Crimen Incesti
By: Lindsay J. Thompson ; with a foreword by James J. O'Donnell.
Series: Hors serie
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773447653
Subjects: Vestal virgins; Rome -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by James J. O'Donnell; title: Consecrated virginity in the Catholic tradition; title: Virginity and ecclesial culture; title: Nicene ecclesiology; title: Virginity and the formation of the Nicene Church; title: Theorizing ecclesial practice and politics in late antiquity; title: Roman civic religion; title: Roman marriage, family, and gender relations; title: The Roman family; title: Roman gender relations; title: Roman civic identity : Romanitas; title: Roman religion; title: Roman myth and ritual; title: Structural elements of roman myth and ritual; title: Cult symbols and themes; title: Roman religious sensibility; title: Roman virginity and the vestal cult; title: Ancient sources; title: Texts; title: Archaeological record; title: General features of the vestal cult; title: Language of the vestal cult; title: Vestal mythology; title: Mythic narratives; title: Vestal themes and images; title: Vestal characters and relationships; title: Vestal sexuality and gender; title: Vestal rituals; title: Rituals of the vestal cult; title: The vestal role in Roman civic cult observance; title: Ritual patterns of the Crimen Incesti; title: The Crimen Incesti ritual as sacrificial purification; title: The Crimen Incesti ritual as heroic ordeal; title: Interpreting vestal virginity; title: Early ecclesial virginity; title: Jewish cultural roots; title: The founding christian vision; title: Jesus' vision; title: Apostolic vision; title: Roman foundations of ecclesial culture; title: Roman textual evidence about early Christians; title: The female body and early ecclesial culture; title: Early Christian women martyrs; title: They martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas; title: Martyrdom and the character of early Christian identity; title: Early Christian women virgins; title: First century attitudes towards virginity; title: Jesus' teaching on virginity; title: New Testament virginity; title: Second century Christian virginity; title: Third century Christian virginity; title: Nicene virginity; title: Roman founders of the Nicene Church; title: Sources and interpretations; title: Ambrose; title: Class, culture, and ecclesial Romanitas; title: Leadership in crisis; title: Discourses and practices of ecclesial virginity; title: Idealized ecclesial kinship; title: Jerome; title: Class, culture, and ecclesial Romanitas; title: Discourses and practices of ecclesial virginity; title: Virginity as a testimony of male power and fertility; title: Idealized ecclesial kinship; title: Augustine; title: Class, culture, and ecclesial Romanitas; title: Discourses and practices of ecclesial virginity; title: Fertility, ecclesial kinship, and male power; title: Roman patterns of nicene ecclesial virginity; title: Virginity in the late antique political imagination; title: The importance of virginity to early Christians; title: The novel and exclusive Christian social order; title: New questions; title: Why were the Romans so focused on virginity?; title: What did the virginal female body represent?