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Perhaps because well educated women formed a large part of the audience of early Germanic literature, it was quite sympathetic to them. God's Handwork offers a guide to the images of women in this literature. Focusing on the vernacular writings of Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic territories in the same era, he discovers that many of these literary women were `romanesque' abstractions and not meant to represent actual people. Schrader's book offers a genuinely fresh look at its subject matter, and will prove of interest to scholars in medieval literature, comparative literature, and women's studies.Studies in the Humanities