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Borderline Virginities convincingly demonstrates that examining Vestals and Christian virgins together is vital, and Undheim's approach allows for the similarities and the distinctives of these Roman virginities to come into greater focus as constructions of a shared socio-cultural context of Romanitas. Undheim's excellent book represents the fruit of the cultural turn in late antique studies, drawing upon a wide variety of theoretical approaches that attempt to cross the ditch between representation and 'reality, ' by focusing on ideology and social constructions as well as the importance of the textuality and literary character of the historians' sources . - Amy Brown Hughes, Gordon College, USA, Journal of Early Christian Studies 2019

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Sissel Undheim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her academic work focuses on sacred virginity in antiquity and Late Antiquity, and she has published various articles on this topic, as well as on New Age religion and the didactics of religion. She has edited a collection of translated texts on Roman religion for the Norwegian series Verdens Hellige Skrifter (Sacred Texts of the World).

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