Religious Critique of Infanticide in the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Middle East: The maw'ūda Topos in Gregory of Tours, Pseudo-Ephrem, and the Quran.
This article shows that at least since the sixth century a literary topos existed in the Middle East to link neonatal infanticide to illicit sex. It is attested in a pilgrimage account preserved by Gregory of Tours (d. 592) and a passage in an apocalyptic sermon (Sermo I) attributed to Pseudo-Ephrem...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA) Vol. 146; no. 3; pp. 477 - 499 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Jul-Sep2026
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