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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... mistress of an Italian nobleman ; she later regrets her ways and becomes a Franciscan tertiary , vi- sionary , and caretaker of the sick Birth of Angela of Foligno , Italian mystic Death of Hadewijch , Belgian mystic and Beguine ...
... mistress of the household . The fourteenth - century Italian Mar- gherita Datini , for instance , was infertile , but her house was constantly filled with children whom she fostered or served as guardian . Included among these children ...
... mistress.26 Women also participated alongside men in a number of riots and rebellions . In the English Rising of 1381 , for example , both male and female peasants and townspeople marched on the city of London , burned palaces , and ...
Contents
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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