• List of Illustrations
• Series Editors' Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: Virginities and Virginity Studies - Sarah Salih, Anke Bernalj and Ruth Evans
  2. When is a Bosom Not a Bosom?: Problems with 'Erotic Mysticism' - Sarah Salih
  3. The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity? - Juliette Dor
  4. Virginity and Chastity Tests in Medieval Welsh Prose - Jane Cartwright
  5. Four Virgins' Tales: Sex and Power in Medieval Law - Kim M. Phillips
  6. The Labour of Continence: Masculinity and Clerical Virginity - John H. Arnold
  7. Edward the Celibate, Edward the Saint: Virginity in the Construction of Edward the Confessor - Joanna Huntington
  8. Alchemy and the Exploration of Late Medieval Sexuality - Jonathan Hughes
  9. The Jew, the Host and the Virgin Martyr: Fantasies of the Sentient Body - Ruth Evans
  10. Can the Virgin Martyr Speak? - Robert Mills
  11. 'Saint, Witch, Man, Maid or Whore?': Joan of Arc and Writing History - Anke Bernau
  12. Virginity Now and Then: A Response to Medieval Virginities - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
• Bibliography
• Index