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Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt : Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the socia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krakowski, Eve, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019].
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Women in a patronage culture
  • Chapter 1: The family
  • Chapter 2: The courts and the law
  • Part 2. Unmarried daughters
  • Chapter 3: A ripened fig: age at first marriage
  • Chapter 4: The economics of female adolescence
  • Chapter 5: A virgin in her father's house: modesty, mobility, and social control
  • Part 3. Becoming a wife
  • Chapter 6: Marriage choices
  • Chapter 7: Defining marriage: legal agreements and their uses
  • Chapter 8: In the marital household.