附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Creation before Eve -- Maid in God's image? Eve as the embodiment of difference -- The first couple in Paradise -- The labors of Adam and Eve -- The fallen world and thirteenth-century Venice -- Excerpts from the Book of Genesis (Douay version) -- Notes -- Selected references -- Illustration credits -- Index.
摘要:"Penny Howell Jolly offers a compelling and provocative reading of a single well-known work of art: the stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice. Jolly studies the mosaics as a reinterpretation of the foundational myth of divine creation and male and female roles, and thus as a social document that reveals a great deal about the perception of relations between the sexes in thirteenth-century Venice." "In the end, she sees the mosaic as a highly misogynist revision of the Cotton Genesis directed toward a thirteenth-century audience. The book incorporates recent studies in narratology and feminist theology, as well as a discussion of how a medieval audience, unschooled in reading and writing, was visually literate and able to "read" these images."--Jacket.
