Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakows...
Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakows...
Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakowski.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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G 2020/0523
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part 1. Women in a patronage culture -- Chapter 1: The family -- Chapter 2: The courts and the law -- Part 2. Unmarried daughters -- Chapter 3: A ripened fig: age at first marriage -- Chapter 4: The economics of female adolescence -- Chapter 5: A virgin in her father's house: modesty, mobility, and...
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Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth to thirteenth century Islamic...
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Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakowski.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/0523
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74VKaZakO3N3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZakO3N3
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ISBN
0691174989 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780691174983 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
DDC
305.4889240620902
MMS ID
991024290901802626
