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 the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. U...
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Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of
Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformatio...
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 136 ● ISBN 9781400827084 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.9 MB ● Editorial Princeton University Press ● Ciudad Princeton ● País US ● Publicado 2009 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2365118 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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