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"[T]his is a clever and delightful monograph."--Elisabeth Van Houts, Early Medieval Europe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 7 CHAPTER TWO: Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians 26 CHAPTER THREE: A Tale of Two Judiths 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender 60 EPILOGUE: Women at the End 76 Notes 79 Suggestions for Further Reading 99 Index 101

Women at the Beginning

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780691171463, 978-0691171463
    ISBN10: 0691171467

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    Trade Review
    "[T]his is a clever and delightful monograph."--Elisabeth Van Houts, Early Medieval Europe

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 7 CHAPTER TWO: Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians 26 CHAPTER THREE: A Tale of Two Judiths 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender 60 EPILOGUE: Women at the End 76 Notes 79 Suggestions for Further Reading 99 Index 101

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