Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also...
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Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored. MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781842126219 (1842126210)
Publish date: January 2002
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages no: 337
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Feminism,
Womens,
Gender,
Womens Studies
Series: Medieval Women Boxset
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