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Sexual abstinence in literature

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3 works

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    Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages / Kathleen Coyne Kelly.

    Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. | Date: 2000
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    Constructions of widowhood and virginity in the Middle Ages / edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl.

    | Date: 1999
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    Hymeneutics : interpreting virginity on the early modern stage / Marie H. Loughlin.

    Loughlin, Marie H., 1962- | Date: [1997], ©1997

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