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Pious and rebellious : Jewish women in Medieval Europe /
The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000–1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Waltham, Massachusetts : Hanover [N.H.] :
Brandeis University Press ; Published by University Press of New England,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.
Brandeis series on Jewish women. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The image of the woman: partner or the "other"?
- Age at marriage
- Engagement, betrothal, and the choice of a marriage partner
- Monogamy and polygamy
- Feminine modesty and women's role in supporting the family
- Woman as wife and mother and her economic status
- Women's culture and education
- The role of women in religious life and in family ceremonies
- Women's role in Jewish martyrdom in Europe in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries
- Violence toward women
- The divorcée and the "rebellious wife"
- The widow and the "murderous wife"
- Summary: women's status in historical perspective.