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While the courts of medieval Europe ate up tales of knights in shining armor and damsels in distress, the reality for th
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Gregory of Tours hoped to inspire the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and wicked deeds and th
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Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as t
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Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteent
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Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual en
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Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women
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The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981,
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This work explores the ways in which a range of women, as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attend
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Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the develo
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This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of A
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