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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... less money than monasteries , because even monasteries without large numbers of ordained priests fared better than nunneries . Throughout the Middle Ages , families tended to invest less in their daughters than in their sons . NEW ...
... less likely than their brothers to receive a formal education . By the later Middle Ages , many girls were taught basic skills of reading , addition , and subtraction in order to help them oversee the household accounts . As chapter 5 ...
... less visible as patrons than were widows.50 This decreased visibility doesn't necessarily mean that married women played less of a role in patronage : rather , their role as patrons was often hidden behind that of their husbands . In ...
Contents
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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