| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Editors' note; WIDOWS' WORLDS Representations and realities Marjo Buitelaar; THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE WIDOW IN ANCIENT ISRAEL Karel van der Toorn; PAUPER OR PATRONESS The widow in the Early Christian Church Jan N. Bremmer; WIDOWS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Rolf H. Bremmer Jr; WIDOWS AND THE LAW The legal position of widows in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Dieneke Hempenius-van Dijk; 'EUROPEAN' WIDOWS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES Their legal and social position Heleen C. Gall. |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary collection of studies is the first ever to shed light on a fascinating & much neglected aspect of women's history: widows. The contributors present facets of widows' lives from religious and moral to legal obligations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Widowhood -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Widowhood. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bremmer, Jan N.
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Bosch, Lourens van den, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Between poverty and the pyre. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 (DLC) 94027018 |
| ISBN |
0203036980 (electronic book) |
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9780203036983 |
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0203036980 |
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9781134888832 (electronic book) |
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113488883X (electronic book) |
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0415083702 (Cloth) |
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9780415083706 |
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