The riddle of Jael : the history of a poxied heroine in Medieval and Renaissance art and culture /
In The Riddle of Jael , Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a tent peg through his brain as he slept under her care, was a blessed murderess and an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018
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| Series: | Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Ser.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
