IL FENOMENO DELLE SUBINTRODUCTAE: Analisi e osservazioni a partire da un testo del iii secolo: le Epistulae «Ad Virgines»: THE PHENOMENON OF SUBINTRODUCTAE Analysis and observations starting from a third century text: the Epistulae "Ad Virgines".
This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of the virgines subintroductae, using different sources from ancient Christian literature. Virgines subintroductae were young girls who cohabited with male ascetics or members of the clergy as "spiritual wives". This practice was widespread, despit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Morcelliana
2021
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Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2021, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 173-203 |
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Ad Virgines
B Unmarried couples B coabitazione B Cohabitation B Christian Literature B Virginity B letteratura Pseudo-Clementina B Pseudo-Clementine literature B Virgines subintroductae |
| Summary: | This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of the virgines subintroductae, using different sources from ancient Christian literature. Virgines subintroductae were young girls who cohabited with male ascetics or members of the clergy as "spiritual wives". This practice was widespread, despite being criticized by many Christian authors and repeatedly condemned in councils. The paper focuses on the Pseudo-Clementine epistles Ad Virgines, in which the problem of cohabitation is particularly developed. Even though the work has been transmitted as two letters on virginity attributed to Clement of Rome, it is actually a single long sermon written around the third century by an unknown author, who is concerned about the spread of the practice of cohabitation in his community. The theme of subintroductae is particularly important to understand the historical and cultural context in which Ad Virgines were written. In addition to this anonymous work, passages from Tertullian, Hermas, Jerome and other ancient authors are considered, as well as the canons of the synods of Ancyra, Nicaea and Mar Isaac on the theme of subintroductae. |
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