Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500–1500 CE
Sarah Ifft Decker, "Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500–1500 CE "
English | ISBN: 0367612720 | 2022 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 19 MB
English | ISBN: 0367612720 | 2022 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 19 MB
Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women.
The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources, originally written in languages including Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic, to introduce both the state of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Jewish communities, and the ways in which Jewish women experienced family, love, sex, work, faith, and crisis in the medieval past. From the well-known Dolce of Worms to the less famed Bonadona, widow of Astrug Caravida of Girona, to the many nameless women referred to in medieval texts,
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