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Journal of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, No. 11, 2018.

Original scientific paper

VIRGINITY AND FEMALE HEROISM IN THE CROATIAN MEDIEVAL DRAMA THE PASSION OF SAINT MARGARITA

Dubravka Dulibić-Paljar orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-7604 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula, Pula, Croatia

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the Croatian medieval drama The Passion of the Saint Margarita. The first part of the paper deals with the genre structure of virgin martyrs legends, while the focus is on the early Christian conceptualization of the phenomenon of martyrdom and virginity. Proceeding from the above, the second part of this paper analyzes the phenomenon of women’s heroic virginity in The Passion of the Saint Margarita.

Keywords

Croatian medieval drama; The Passion of the Saint Margarita; virgin martyr legends; Christian virginity; female virginity.

Hrčak ID:

213428

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/213428

Publication date:

19.12.2018.

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