This final assignment explores the formation of Eve's role as the main sinner through the Old
Testament story of original sin, further emphasising the link between nakedness and sinfulness.
The first part of the thesis presents the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the literary form in which
it is found today, while also highlighting comparisons with different versions of the primary
Bibles. In the next section, the literary sources of various Christian writers are given, shedding
light on the development of the idea of sinfulness itself and on the development of the connection
between nakedness and sinfulness, with the emphasis again on Eve as a sinner. In the last part, the
text is devoted to an analysis of five works of art produced between the 11th and the 13th centuries
in the context of Western European art. These works show the power and influence of the earliest
writers on the medieval interpreters, as well as the impact of church dogma on the formation of
the image of Eve as a sinner and, consequently, on the role of women in society at that time.
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