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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... seem to have been excluded from weaving and tailoring except under particular circumstances.43 Access to the textile ... seems to have existed for silk workers and other female cloth workers in eleventh- century Constantinople . Parisian ...
... violence or adultery and was accompanied by great bitterness ; in others , the separation seems to have been relatively amicable.38 Chaste marriages were more complicated : officially , the church 106 Women's Roles in the Middle Ages.
... seem to have been particularly unusual , as evidenced by the fact that chroniclers who mentioned female warriors did ... seems to have prepared her for this , so strong and resolute is she ! And her enemies go flee- ing before her , not ...
Contents
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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