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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... violence ( as chapter 4 explains , domestic violence was typically overlooked by medieval courts , unless the severity of the violence was considered excessive rather than reasonable ) . Yet some couples did break with the expected ...
... violence show that women's rights were often under- mined by the expectation that they stay remote from the ... violent criminals in particular , women were even scarcer : in the French officialty of Cerisy , women accounted for only ...
... Violence . See Domestic violence Virginity , 7-8 , 29–32 , 53 , 97–98 , 117 , 118 , 135 Virgin Mary , 30 , 47-48 , 49 , 94 , 117 ; as a model for women , 24 , 173–76 ; religious guilds dedicated to , 46 , 97 ; representations of , 105 ...
Contents
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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