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Women at the Beginning r This page intentionally left blank Women at the Beginning r Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary PATRICK J. GEARY Princeton University Press PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright2006byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress, 3MarketPlace,Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Geary,PatrickJ.,1948– Womenatthebeginning:originmythsfromtheAmazons totheVirginMary/PatrickJ.Geary. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences(p.)andindex. ISBN-13:978-0-691-12409-4(cl:alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-691-12409-4(cl:alk.paper) 1.Women—Mythology.2.Beginning—Mythology.I.Title. BL795.W65G43 2006 201′.3′082—dc22 2005047630 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinMinion Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ pup.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Mary r at the beginning and forever This page intentionally left blank Contents r Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 7 CHAPTER TWO Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians 26 CHAPTER THREE A Tale of Two Judiths 43 CHAPTER FOUR Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender 60 EPILOGUE Women at the End 76 Notes 79 Suggestions for Further Reading 99 Index 101 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments r L awrence Stone changed my life in the autumn of 1972 by inviting me to interview for a position at Princeton Univer- sity.While mytraining intheMedieval StudiesProgram atYale UniversityunderthedirectionofRobertLopezandJaroslavPeli- kan taught me to be a medievalist, my years on the Princeton facultyandinparticularparticipatingintheweeklymeetingsof the Shelby Cullom Davis Center seminars, presided over by Stone, taught me most of what I know about being a historian. ThusitwasaparticularpleasuretohavebeeninvitedbyAnthony GraftonandWilliamJordanastheLawrenceStoneVisitingPro- fessoratPrincetonUniversityin2002.Whileresearchingaprevi- ousbookthatdealtwiththerelationshipbetweencontemporary nationalism and medieval origin myths, I had been fascinated bytheplacethatwomenheld(ordidnothold)inthesemyths.1 The series of lectures I gave at Princeton that year provided me the opportunity to return to these texts with a different set of questions, questions about the representation of women in the origins of families, peoples, nations, and religions. While at Princeton in 2002, Anthony Grafton, William Jor- dan, Adelaide Bennet, and Peter Brown helped me recognize some of the fundamental issues at stake in this project. In Eu- rope,HerwigWolframandWalterPohl,whohavepioneeredthe studynotonlyofearlymedievaloriginmythsbutofthegender implicationsofthesecomplextraditions,generouslysharedtheir workinprogressonthetopic.DusˇanTrˇesˇt´ıkandPetraMutlova have kindly assisted me with the Czech tradition. Megan Cas-

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In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes
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