Women at the Beginning (eBook)

Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

Patrick J. Geary (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2708-4 (ISBN)

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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 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).

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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 women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society. Unlike other books on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the authors of these stories were themselves struggling with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Adelheid • Aeneid • Amazons • Ambivalence • annas • Anthony Grafton • Brothers of Jesus • Caiaphas • Carolingian dynasty • Charles the Bald • Charles the Simple • Christian • Christian scripture • Classical Antiquity • classics • Clopas • Cosmas of Prague • Council of Ephesus • Count • Counter-Reformation • Count of Flanders • czechs • Davidic line • dowry • Early Middle Ages • Ebionites • Elopement (marriage) • Exegesis • Fallen Woman • fief • fornication • Francia • Gallienus • Gender History • Gender Role • Genealogy of Jesus • Georges Duby • geryon • Gesta Danorum • Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew • Grendel's mother • Heli (biblical figure) • Hemma • Herodotus • High Middle Ages • Historiography • his woman • Iconography • Ideology • Idolatry • Jews • Jordanes • Judith of Flanders • Julius Africanus • Late Antiquity • Lecture • Literature • Lombards • Lotharingia • Louis the Pious • Louis the Stammerer • Marc Bloch • Mary, mother of Jesus • Mathilda (novella) • Matilda of Tuscany • Matriarchy • Medieval Studies • Melusine • Midrash • narrative • Oral tradition • origin myth • Origin Story • Origo Gentis Langobardorum • Orosius • Paganism • Paul the Deacon • placidia • Prehistory • Princeton University • Protevangelium • Queen of Heaven • Raetia • Salvation History • Saxo Grammaticus • Scythians • Social Group • Swabia • The Goths • The Historian's Craft • Theodelinda • Theology • The Rape of the Sabine Women • Thierry • tomb • Tree of Jesse • Vassal • Verginia • Walter Pohl • Widukind of Corvey
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2708-6 / 1400827086
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2708-4 / 9781400827084