Ring around the Moon: A Novel

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A cry in the night awakens ten-year-old Amy Beale and alerts her to the difficulties in her parents' marriage.Earlier that steamy evening in July 1940, her mother, Arleatha, witnessed yet another of her husband's infidelities at one of his notorious "rent parties." Amy overhears her sobbing in the middle of the night, as Jack Beale begs for another chance. Arleatha agrees to give him one year.

From her bed, a terrified Amy tries to strike a bargain with God: Keep the family together, and she will never do anything bad. Amen. But as every adult knows, a child cannot keep a family together -- and sometimes even love isn't enough.

In Ring Around the Moon, an older, wiser Amy looks back on that pivotal year. She chronicles the family's move from a small colored community to an affluent town nearby; the conflict there as she and her brothers, Lonnie and James, adjust to new friends, a new school, and interfering relatives and neighbors.

As the months pass and the children grow used to their surroundings, the struggle between Jack and Arleatha continues. Arleatha puts forth her best efforts but becomes ever more exasperated as her husband continues to drink, gamble, and play around. A proud man who feels trapped in his black skin, Jack wants a family but cannot help always looking for "the good life" for himself. His desires, as well as outside influences, strain their already difficult marriage. Then a terrible incident threatens to break up the family once and for all.

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Fascintating Read.......2001-03-19

Ring Around The Moon is a moving novel about a family in rural Virginia during the 1940s. The story is told throughthe voice of Amy the 11 year old. She descibes the life of her family and life for the outside the home- school, segregation, etc. The books seems as though it could be autobiographical describing both the good and the bad of this family and the community. The author brings dignity to the characters and to their surroundings. Amy and Aunt Minne were my favorites. Though a dysnfunctional family there still is a story of hope, survial,and endurance. I look forward to reading other books by Mary Burnett Smith.

Fascintating Read.......2001-03-19

Excellent!.......2000-12-27

This is an excellent book. Some mentioned, what was the point and what was the storyline? There were several points and stories relevant to those interested in African American history and the African diaspora. Among those points are issues of skin color and hair among people of color. Specifically, issues that all types of people of color (all over the color spectrum) deal with and how some of these backwards ideas were planted. Issues regarding alcoholism and its effects on the family and future generations are also brought up. In addition to these issues, sibling relationships are explored and the story of a marriage tearing apart is told. There are also many more issues in this book. Some reviewers mentioned the lack of "closure" in the book. I don't see a problem with this lack of closure. Does everything in our own lives as human beings end elegantly and neatly? This book adds one perspective to the question,"What does it mean to be human?"

I was amazed at how well the author lived through 11 year old Amy's life. This is an excellent book. When I started it, I could not put it down. I highly recommend it!

Well-written 1940s Black childhood story.......2000-08-17

If you enjoy reading books about the childhood occurrences spoken from an adult's retrospective point of view, then you'll enjoy Ring Around the Moon.

The setting is the 1940s and the main character is Amy, which is short for Amelia. Amy recants her childhood struggles of growing up as a poor, redheaded Black child whose alcoholic father was also a womanizer and wife batterer. Her struggles include witnessing her father's drunkenness, his womanizing, and the battering(s) he gave her mother as well as her older brother Lonnie, with whom Amy also has issues.

Amy's childhood involves more downs than ups. Amy, however, is able to make the most of being a product of a dysfunctional, poor, 1940s Black American family.

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Ring Around The Moon A Missouri Novel
R.Maureece Battles
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Ring Around The Moon A Missouri Novel

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Ring Around the Moon: A Novel
Mary B. Smith
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Vlad Taltos x 3! Three Steven Brust fantasy novels in one all-new edition-featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion. A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures-Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla. From his rookie assassin days to his selfless feats of heroism, the dauntless Vlad will hold readers spellbound-and The Book of Jhereg will take its place among the classic compilations in fantasy.
--A pocket-sized dragon-what's not to love?
--A collectible 3-in-1 edition featuring one of science fiction's most memorable heroes

"This whole series is entertaining and worth reading!" -Locus

"Engaging...written with a light touch...good stuff!" -Publishers Weekly

"Watch Steven Brust. He's good. He moves fast. He surprises you." -Roger Zelazny

"Hard to put down . . . fun to read!" -OtherRealms

"Imagine James Bond in a world of magic...exciting!" -Voya

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

The first book of Brust's most excellent Vlad Taltos series. Vlad is making his way in the world as a hired killer and low level crimelord in the House of the Jhereg.

What is unique about him (apart from being a killer and crimelord) is that he is a human, not one of the long lived Dragaerans, and he practices witchcraft, not sorcery. His familiar is a highly intelligent flying lizard named Loiosh. He can talk to him because of the bargain he made with Loiosh's mother to care for him if he became his familiar.

This is the beginning of a cycle, and ever so slowly at first Vlad gets drawn into events and happenings involving the powers structures of the Dragaeran empire.

A very enjoyable read, and start to the series.......2007-03-24

This book was my first introduction to both Vlad Taltos and Steven Brust, and a fun introduction it was! I thoroughly enjoy the first person perspective, and particularly the irreverence of this particular character. There's loads of action and adventure mixed in with an engaging amount of mystery as well.

Now, although this is a 3-book collection, it is not what you would consider sequential. The books take up the Vlad Taltos story at three seperate points, and in fact aren't even presented at progressive points in the timeline. That's something some readers might find a little annoying, but that's actually the way the whole series seems to work, so unless you can figure out the exact order you're supposed to read the full collection, you'll just have to deal with this quirk.

My only real complaint with this collection is in the third book, which is the book "Teckla". I don't know if Brust wrote the book to be specifically an exploration of Vlad's psyche, but that is definitely what it became. As a result, the pace of the book is a bit slower than the others.

I don't think anyone will argue that this collection represents some massive landmark piece of literature. If you're after that, then you'll probably want to go elsewhere. If you want to have a nice, light, fun read, then this book will do you quite nicely.

Fantasy with a Twist--of the knife.......2007-02-20

There are a lot of common elements to any fantasy story: there are swords, magic, epic deeds, good and evil, and occaisionally, elves.
Yes, these elemnts are here in Brust's work, but he takes an unusual twist. The hero of the story is one Vlad Taltos, an Easterner (Human) living in an Empire of Dragearans (elves, or close to it). Vlad is, in traditional fantasy parlance, an Assasin. However, a more accurate description would be 'Mafia hitman'.
The Dragaeran Empire is divided into seventeen Great Houses, with each House named for an animal, and those in the house having personalities similar to the animal. House Dragon is full of warriors, House Phoenix is the Empress, house Orca is full of Sailors, etc. House Jhereg (a jhereg being, essentially, a small, carrion eating, winged reptile) controls all the illegal activity in the Empire.
Each book in the series does two things: Describes the personality and actions of members in a featured House, and tells a fascinating, stand alone story. This collection contains the first three tales: 'Jhereg', 'Yendi', and 'Teckla'.

'Jhereg' introduces the hero, Vlad, and his constant companion: a wisecracking jhereg familiar named Loiosh. He is working as a low level boss controlling the 'business interests' of House Jhereg in a small area of the capital city, Adrilankha. As a freelance assasin on the side, he will occasionally 'work' to supplement his income. The tale gives us the 'locked room mystery' in reverse: How do you kill a man so well protected he can't be touched?

"Yendi" serves as a flashback of sorts, telling of a time a few years earlier than the events in 'Jhereg', and it tells the tale of the first time Vlad was forced into a 'turf-war' with another Jhereg, with a few surprising twists, including meeting his future wife, Cawti.

"Teckla" picks up Where 'Jhereg' left off, and intoduces us to the House Teckla: peasants, farmers, and would-be Communist Revolutionaries...

Each story works well as a stand-alone fantasy adventure, but when taken together, they expand into a more complex tale of vast empires and epic heroes. Definitely worth reading.

Fun Fantasy Story.......2007-02-16

This is the first in a series of fantasy books. It introduces the hero, Vlad Taltos, a professional assassin and enforcer in town. He doesn't really fit in, because of his race and his small size, but he is respected now that he is an adult and has some power. Other powerful people in the royal houses of the government come to him to help him solve their problems, and he is as successful at solving problems as he is at being an assassin.

This book explains how Vlad grew into his adulthood. As a youngster he was an outcast. His grandfather taught him fencing and witchcraft, and from his father he received a bought title of nobility and training in sorcery. When he had enough magic to protect himself from the poisonous jhereg dragons, he called one to him and asked her for one of her eggs. From this egg hatched a jhereg Vlad named Loiosh. This dragon rides on his shoulder, flies around to scout for trouble, and makes sarcastic comments directly into Vlad's mind through telepathy.

After this history of Vlad, the book goes on to tell the story of a theif who stole a great deal of money from one of the royal houses and now claimed sanctuary in one of the other houses, where politics forbids his host from turning him in. Vlad is hired to get this man out of hiding so he can be killed for stealing the money. Vlad and Loiosh are on the job, trying to solve the problem without getting themselves killed in the process.

This is a good bit of fantasy, full of likable characters and a well developed political structure. I liked the banter between Vlad and Loiosh and the ways they managed to get themselves out of trouble.

review of first 3 in vlad sries.......2007-01-23

steven brust. pay attention to this guy he's quick....witted. I think this series is the best out there in terms of fansay. takes a little bit to get used to his odd names, but you get the hand of it with this 3 in 1 book. what more is their to say, if your a fanasy fan this book is a must buy.

THE BOOK OF JHEREG (ADVENTURES OF VLAD TALTOS)

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Introducing Vlad Taltos
The Book of Jhereg

THE BOOK OF JHEREG (ADVENTURES OF VLAD TALTOS)

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FICTION,ADVENTURE.CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OFTHE FIRST THREE ADVENTURES OF VLAD TALTOS...JHEREG, YENDI AND TECKLA

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Introducing Vlad Taltos.......2007-01-10

This is a compilation volume which contains the first three books in the Vladimir Taltos series by publication order - Jhereg, Yendi, and Tecla. However, the time sequence of the books jumps about a lot: in chronological order these are the 4th, 3rd, and 5th books.

Jhereg, the first published book, introduces the character and his world. Like all the other stories, it is a highly entertaining comic fantasy.

The first part of "Jhereg" includes a brief account of Vlad's boyhood, and the story of how he acquires the live Jhereg egg which hatches into his familiar and constant companion Loiosh. Jhereg the species, like Loiosh, are small intelligent flying reptile something like a miniature dragon, and their pictures appear on the cover of most of the books in this series. Loiosh has a telepathic link to Vlad, and one of the hallmarks of the series is the constant mental exchange of banter and insults between Vlad and Loiosh.

As mentioned, all the Vlad Taltos stories jump around in time a lot, and and after the introduction "Jhereg" the book jumps ahead approximately seven years to the main action of the book, leapfrogging three of the subsequently written books including "Yendi," and making Jhereg the fourth volume in chronological sequence.

"Yendi" starts a while before the main action of "Jhereg" and tells the story of how Vlad meets a human (Easterner) woman called Cawti and her Dragaeran partner Norathar. Vlad and Cawti don't exactly get off to a good start - in fact she kills him ...

"Tecla" follows on from "Jhereg" - Cawti gets involved in an insurrection in the southern region of the Imperial capital Adrilankha, and then Vlad gets caught up in it as well. For those who are also interested in Brust's "Khaavren" Romances, (see below) this book includes the one scene where Vlad Taltos and Khaavren briefly meet.

Both the "Vlad Taltos" novels, and "Khaavren" romances, are set in a world of magic, where there are several intelligent species, including two types of men and women. Humans like ourselves, and Vlad, are usually referred to as "Easterners," the other type of men and women call themselves humans but are usually referred to in the books as "Dragaerans" or occasionally as Elves.

Dragaerans are taller than humans, live 2,000 to 3,000 years or so, and then after death are eligible for reincarnation provided they have not annoyed a God too much or had their soul destroyed by a "Morganti" weapon or a "Great Weapon."

Morganti weapons are used between mortals when they are really angry ith someone because they don't just kill you, but destroy your soul. "Great Weapons," are rare and especially powerful Morganti weapons, of which legend has it there are exactly seventeen, and which can even kill Gods.

All Dragaerans and some humans/Easterners belong to one of seventeen "Great Houses" named after animals of the fantasy world in which the novels are set. Nine of the ten novels to date featuring Vlad Taltos, including "Jhereg," "Yendi", and "Tecla," have the same name as one of these great houses, usually also featuring a member of that house in a prominent role: if Steven Brust is planning to write a novel for each house we are about half way through the series.

Most of the great houses also have a preferred occupation. For examples: "Dragons" and "Dzurlords" are soldiers, "Tecla" are peasants, "Chreotha" are merchants, "Orcas" are sailors, pirates or bankers, and "Jhereg" are gangsters or assassins.

Most members of House Jhereg are also involved in "the organisation" which controls organised crime. The hero, Baronet Vladimir Taltos, is an assassin and minor sorcerer, a member of House Jhereg, and at the time of these books, a crimelord running an area for "the organisation." Vlad's late father spent most of the family fortune buying a minor title in House Jhereg, which is almost the only way a human (Easterner) can advance in the empire, and Vlad has inherited the title.

Taltos narrates these stories with a wonderful dry wit which is one of the best aspects of the novels.

The books are not written in a regular chronological sequence: for example, the fourth novel, "Taltos" is a prequel set before the main action of any of the others. And most of the books contain either flashbacks to much earlier events, references to much later events, or both. In my opinion you will get most out of these books if you read them in something close to the "official" order, but there is an alternative view which says that they are best read in chronological sequence.

If you are interested in the Vlad Taltos series, my recommendation would be to start with either the first book written, "Jhereg," this collection of the first three, or the chronologically first book, "Taltos."

Here is a list of the books in publication order, with the chronological place of the main action of each book in brackets after:

1) Jhereg (4th)
2) Yendi (3rd)
3) Tecla (5th)
4) Taltos (1st)
5) Phoenix (6th)
6) Athyra (7th)
7) Orca (8th)
8) Dragon (2nd)
9) Issola (9th)
10) Dzur (10th).

As mentioned above, Steven Brust has set another series of books in the same world as the Vlad Taltos stories but a few centuries earlier. These are something between a parody and a homage to the novels of Alexandre Dumas. He's called them the "Khaavren Romances" after the central character of the first two novels, who corresponds very closely to D'Artagnan. Obviously none of the human characters overlap, but some of the Dragaerans do: Khaavren himself and Vlad briefly meet in the book "Tecla" and Khaavren also has a sort of offstage cameo in the Vlad Taltos book "Orca."

Two of the major characters in the Taltos novels, Sethra Lavode and Lord Morrolan of Castle Black, are also important enough in the Khaavren novels to have books named after them.

The five Khaavren romances, in sequence, are

1) "The Phoenix Guards" (equivalent to "The Three Musketeers")
2) "Five Hundred Years After" (equivalent to "Twenty years after")

Then a trilogy "The Viscount of Adrilankha" (e.g. "The Count of Monte Cristo") which comprises

3) The Paths of the Dead
4) The Lord of Castle Black
5) Sethra Lavode

Overall I found both the "Taltos" novels and the "Khaavren Romances" very entertaining: I recommend both series and this book.

The Book of Jhereg.......2005-09-27

Had to acquire hardbound copy as I had read all the series in paperback.
Good series, some what confusing due to time shifts in story line.
Humorous adventure series; good quality adult/mature teen entertainment!

THE VLAD TALTOS NOVELS - Book (1) One: Jhereg; Book (2) Two: Yendi; Book (3) Three: Teckla; Book (4) Four: Taltos; Book (5) Five: Phoenix; Book (6) Six: Athyra; Book (7) Seven: Orca; Book (8) Eight: Dragon

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THE VLAD TALTOS NOVELS - Book (1) One: Jhereg; Book (2) Two: Yendi; Book (3) Three: Teckla; Book (4) Four: Taltos; Book (5) Five: Phoenix; Book (6) Six: Athyra; Book (7) Seven: Orca; Book (8) Eight: Dragon
Steven Brust
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The Vlad Taltos Series: The Book of Jhereg, The Book of Taltos, The Book of Athyra (A Collection of the First 7 Adventures in 3 Volumes)

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The Vlad Taltos Series: The Book of Jhereg, The Book of Taltos, The Book of Athyra (A Collection of the First 7 Adventures in 3 Volumes)
Steven Brust
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Vannemar Morgans dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all timea 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.

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Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time;a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgan's Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda. And for two thousand years, the monks have protected Sri Kanda from all mortal quests for glory. Kings and princes who have sought to conquer the Sacred Mountain have all died.Now Vannemar Morgan may be next.

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An elevator to the stars........2006-11-29

Especially for one grounded in "Hard" science, himself contributing as much or more to "Real" science than his books have to fiction. He's credited mostly with the "Communications Satellite" for NASA, btw. Yet, for storytelling he goes more the "Wells" route, than the "Verne" route. While he's against Psuedoscience or hoping for a "Hyperspace breakthrough" he knows that over time current science will simply give way to now unconcievable breakthroughs and what may be impossible now may not be in an aeon. "Magic is Science unexplained" he said. "Fountains of Paradise" is more grounded in the nearer future, the building of a "Space Elevator", and that story being tied to a quest for ultimate power and greatness in the distant past. It is also a kind of tribute to Sri Lanka, the country he loved most of all the places he'd visited in his lifetime and the one he retired in.

Not bad, worth a read...........2006-01-22

I read this book after reading mostly positive reviews and enjoying many of Clark's other works. Overall, I liked it but would of rather had a little mroe interaction with the space elevator/tower. The subplots were OK and held together but the main concept I felt received too little "airtime" so to speak.

Definitely worth a read and as one other reviewer stated, it's an easy book to get into with solid writing style and story flow.

One of Clarke's best.......2005-10-29

If you like Clarke's style (shallow characters who are either ignorable or clones of himself, but very solid and interesting scientific concepts) then this book is a must read. Aside from advancing the idea of the space elevator (which he credits to a Russian scientist) he goes into the little design details and problems such a monumental project would face. This may sound boring, but at least something happened, unlike in Rama, and both are truly interesting if you're into his style. This is Clarke at his best. Take him or leave him.

Surprisingly Good.......2005-10-01

I was expecting this novel to be a dry, Ben Bova style novel, but was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The story is about building an orbital space elevator and what one man does to see it through. There are three major sections to the book, and each oscilates between the main story and an interesting subplot. Overall, it was a quick, fun read that had more depth than I expected.

Usual Clarke themes, still great.......2005-05-30

Arthur C. Clarke novels often have some of the following elements: mankind progresses and invents new things, the inevitable clash with religion, the start of a new history of mankind and a meeting with alien life, most always more intelligent than us.

And still, every novel is a joy to read as is "The Fountains of Paradise". An ambitious man wants to build an elevator from here to the geostationary orbit. The book follows the initial difficulties (economical, political and religious) to get the project started and then the building itself.

There is a meeting with alien life, a little like in Rama and it teaches mankind a lot, though the link with the general story is hard to get sometimes.

As always, this Clarke book is a great story about what mankind is able to do in a few centuries.

The Fountains of Paradise (Millennium SF Masterworks S)

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Clarke is an excellent writer

The Fountains of Paradise (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
Arthur C. Clarke
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In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.

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Clarke is an excellent writer.......2006-11-29

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FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

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These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that revised and undercut them, allowing their own creative and religious voices to emerge. Taken together, they provide a model of how to account for gender in studying medieval texts and offer a new interpretation of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.

In the first three essays, Bynum focuses on the methodological problems inherent in the writing of history. She shows that a consideration of medieval texts written by women and the rituals attractive to them undermines the approaches of three 20th-century intellectual figures - Victor Turner, Max Weber, and Leo Steinberg - and illustrates how other disciplines can enrich historical research. These methodological considerations are then used in the next three essays to examine gender proper. While describing the "experiential" literary voices of medieval women, Bynum underlines the corporality of women's piety and focuses on both the cultural construction and the intractable physicality of the body itself. She also examines how the acts and attitudes of men affected the cultural construction of categories such as "female," "heretic," and "saint" and shows that the study of gender is the study of how roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both women and men. In the final essay, Bynum elucidates how medieval discussions of bodily resurrection and the obsession with material details enrich modem debates over questions of self-identity and survival.

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"Love and Inestimable Satiety".......2001-03-30

Fragmentation and Redemption is a series of seven essays spanning the topics of gender, religious relics, sex, mortality, gender and the miraculous. The essays and the accompanying images are graphic and unforgettable. For example; "The ill clamored for the bathwater of would-be saints to drink or bathe in and preferred it if these would-be saints left skin and lice floating in the water." If you are interested in the cult of relics and medieval mysticism then this book will be a valuable resource. Ecstatic, erotic medieval religious frenzy are chronicled in detail in the highly readable and lively text. I find myself returning to these essays over and over again as I read other, more specific, books on western medieval religious traditions. This is a must have for your reference desk.

Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Rudolph M. Bell
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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on March 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1182 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.
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Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1994
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FRAGMENTATION AND REDEMPTION: ESSAYS ON GENDER AND THE HUMAN BODY IN MEDIEVAL RELIGION.
Caroline Walker. Bynum
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