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| Author | : Lisa M. Bitel |
| File Size | : 53,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 24 October 2002 |
| ISBN | : 0521597730 |
| Pages | : 348 pages |
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"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland
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Get BookFor decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on the premise that elite women in positions
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