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Women at the Beginning : Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary /
In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Women and origins in antiquity and the early Middle ages
- 2. Writing women out : amazons and barbarians
- 3. A tale of two Judiths
- 4. Writing women in : sacred genealogy and gender
- 5. Women at the end.