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Author:

Krakowski, Eve, 1978- author.

Title:

Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakowski.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Jewish women--Egypt--History--History--To 1500.
Jewish women--History--Egypt--History--To 1500.
Cairo Genizah.
Cairo Genizah.
Jewish women--Religious life.
Jewish women--Social conditions.
Egypt.
To 1500
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part 1. Women in a patronage culture -- Chapter 1: The family -- Chapter 2: The courts and the law -- Part 2. Unmarried daughters -- Chapter 3: A ripened fig: age at first marriage -- Chapter 4: The economics of female adolescence -- Chapter 5: A virgin in her father's house: modesty, mobility, and social control -- Part 3. Becoming a wife -- Chapter 6: Marriage choices -- Chapter 7: Defining marriage: legal agreements and their uses -- Chapter 8: In the marital household.

Summary:

This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth to thirteenth century Islamic Eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to that social order-kinship and law-shaped their lives.

ISBN:

0691174989
9780691174983

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983824851

LCCN:

2017020240

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)