VIC343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Virginity
5 Apr 2016
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Context: it is important to note that there is a difference between celibacy, chastity, and virginity. This affects the population in a gendered way the church would at the age of 20 expect both men and women to remain virgins, on the verge of marriage. Nobility: virility was important, linage had to continue and thus impotency was not acceptable and would warrant annulment. More over, it was important that the woman was willing to accept it, as well as the witnessing of the physical penetration. However, a man desiring to have an affair outside of wedlock was hardly a problem. We find that most men in the early. Infidelity among women was troublesome as the validity of children was of great importance, and thus the risk of an illegitimate child was high. The chaste woman was nearly always given an example to follow: the blessed. Celibacy offered women in nunneries independency from men.
