From an Arab Queen to a Yiddische Mama: The Travels of Marital Advice around the Medieval Mediterranean
This study explores the travels of a literary anecdote about ten pieces of advice that a mother gave her daughter on the eve of the latter’s marriage. Tracing the various incarnations of the anecdote from its first attestation in ninth-century Arabic works to later versions in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 471-516 |
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Cultural Transmission
gender roles
marital advice
popular ethics
the ideal wife
the medieval Mediterranean
Umāma bint al-Ḥārith
Mishlei he-ʿarav
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