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Representing Judith in Early Modern French Literature
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Kathleen M. Llewellyn
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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Although attention to the Book of Judith and its heroine has grown in recent years, this is the first full-length study to focus on adaptations of the Bible’s
The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Domna C. Stanton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. Th
Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 568
Authors: Alison Weber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Triden
Judith
Language: en
Pages: 526
Authors: Lawrence M. Wills
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: Fortress Press

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Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her vil
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Jeff Kendrick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, const