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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... seen in the practice by which women were excluded from the church after childbearing , but then welcomed back into the church community . The practice of excluding women after childbirth had been inherited from Jewish tradition . Post ...
... seen as active and heroic , later writers tended to depict Jewish women martyrs as passive and focused on their sexual purity.29 Jewish women thus faced much of the same ambivalence as that encoun- tered by Christian women in the Middle ...
... seen as particularly important . The Angles and the Saxons , Germanic tribes who established indepen- dent kingdoms ... seen as property . In fact marriage , in Ethelbert's code , was seen as a purchase in which a Women and the Law 131.
Contents
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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