Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4773
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  • Title: The New Judith: Teresa de Cartagena [analysis of the "Admiraçión operum dey," a defense of Teresa's first text, the "Arboleda de los enfermos"; the chapter focuses on three images in the text: bark/pith as a symbol for male and female and, as symbols of the author, the biblical Judith and the blind man on the road to Jericho].
  • Source: Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila.Ronald E. Surtz.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.  Pages 21 - 40.
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  • Article Type: Book Chapter
  • Subject (See Also): Blind, Image of Deaf Gender in Literature Imagery Judith (Biblical Figure), Image of Literature- Prose Nuns Teresa de Cartagena, Nun- Admiraçión Operum Dey Women Authors Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0812232925