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The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is an intensively researched topic in contemporary schola
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In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her inge
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The essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and publi
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This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us
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This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet—textiles,
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“InRachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving
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It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christiani
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Looks at the development of celibacy in the Christian Church from the first to fifth centuries A.D., and compares marria
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From the fictional Thecla in the second century to the very real Olympias in the early fifth century, the history of wom
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This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, var
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