This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.

This collection of documents brings together the seminal sources for the Late Merovingian Frankish kingdom.

There are moments in this book that are as much fun as a good mystery story."--Penelope D. Johnson, New York University "Katherine Jansen's major study emerges as a real masterpiece.

This volume will be an excellent source for students and scholars of women's studies and early medieval social, religious, and political history.

This book is essential reading for all scholars concerned with the formation of Christian communities in late antiquity."—Edward Watts, Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San ...

The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.

"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."—from the Foreword, by Caroline Walker Bynum Female saints, mystics, ...

The purpose of Passionate Holiness is to help reconnect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Christians with their roots by highlighting kindred spirits and compatible devotions from early Christian history.