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She is a woman in conflict with her time. Gillian Bradshaw's acclaimed novel portrays the last days of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Charis of Ephesus, a young noblewoman struggling to escape the narrow domestic straitjacket of convention. Spurred on by her family's attempts to marry her off to the cruel governor Festinus, Charis disguises herself as a eunuch and runs away to Alexandria. It is her dream - a seemingly impossible dream for a woman in AD 371 - to study the arts of Hippocratic medicine and to become a physician...
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The Beacon at Alexandria, Gillian Bradshaw
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1988
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- Titel
- The Beacon at Alexandria
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1988
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 376
- ISBN10
- 0140104356
- ISBN13
- 9780140104356
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Medizin & Gesundheit, Romantik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Frauen, Medizin, Afrika, Altertum, Ägypten, Griechenland, Altes Rom, 4. Jahrhundert
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1994
- Originaltitel
- The beacon at Alexandria
- Bewertung
- 4,3 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- She is a woman in conflict with her time. Gillian Bradshaw's acclaimed novel portrays the last days of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Charis of Ephesus, a young noblewoman struggling to escape the narrow domestic straitjacket of convention. Spurred on by her family's attempts to marry her off to the cruel governor Festinus, Charis disguises herself as a eunuch and runs away to Alexandria. It is her dream - a seemingly impossible dream for a woman in AD 371 - to study the arts of Hippocratic medicine and to become a physician...