Women's Roles in the Middle AgesInformation about women in this truly fascinating period from 500 to 1500 is in great demand and has been a challenge for historians to uncover. Bardsley has mined a wide range of primary sources, from noblewomen's writing, court rolls, chivalric literature, laws and legal documents, to archeology and artwork. This fresh survey provides readers with an excellent understanding of how women high and low fared in terms of religion, work, family, law, culture, and politics and public life. Even though medieval women were divided by social class, religion, age, marital status, place and period, they were all subject to an overarching patriarchal structure and sometimes could transcend their inferior status. Numerous examples of these exceptional women and their words are included. |
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... Italy with that from northern Europe . In Italy , as in other southern Mediterranean countries , women married at a younger age and a smaller proportion stayed single throughout their lives . Among lay women aged 15 to 30 in the city of ...
... Italy , 120 . 78. MS Bodleian 938 ff . 265r - 267v . Modernization of English is mine . 79. Heather M. Arden , “ Grief , Widowhood , and Women's Sexuality in Medieval French Literature , " in Upon My Husband's Death : Widows in the ...
... Italy . The Black Death hit many of the Italian cities par- ticularly hard : in Florence , for instance , the population in 1441 was still less than one - third of what it had been a century previously . The message sent by the marriage ...
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Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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