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Hardcover Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary Book

ISBN: 0691124094

ISBN13: 9780691124094

Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

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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...

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