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
The essays presented here are lovely little gems of textual explication based on a long familiarity with the sources for medieval history, as well as a wise fondness for the period. -- Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California
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 Transformation of the Merovingian World (Oxford); Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages; Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton); and The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (Princeton).
"[T]his is a clever and delightful monograph."--Elisabeth Van Houts, Early Medieval Europe
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