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