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Name Sissel Undheim
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
Latitude 60.388018
Longitude 5.321991
Research Interests

Religion in the Roman Empire,
Roman religion
Church Fathers
Sacred virgins, virgin martyrs, male virgins
Gender, sexuality, asceticism and sanctity

Websites http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Sissel.Undheim
Publications

2017. Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. Routledge 2017

2017. “The wise and the foolish virgins. Representations of Vestal Virginity and pagan chastity by Christian writers in Late Antiquity”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 25.3: 383-409

2015. “Veiled visibility. Morality, movement and sacred virginity in Late Antiquity”, The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome, Ida Östenberg, Simon Malmberg and Jonas Bjørnebye (eds), Bloomsbury: 59-71

2012. “Christus virgo. Representations of Christ as a virgin in early Christianity and Late Antiquity.” Bulletin for the study of Religion 41.2: 251-265

2011 Sanctae virginitates. Sacred and consecrated virginities in Late Roman Antiquity. PhD-thesis, University of Bergen

2010. Romersk religion. Verdens hellige skrifter. Sissel Undheim (red.) Bokklubben

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