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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... writing are usually taught simulta- neously today , they were taught as separate skills in the Middle Ages . Letter writers such as Margaret Paston often dictated their messages to scribes rather than relying on their own handwriting ...
... writing around per- sonal accounts of what they saw in the course of their visions . As such , their writing tended toward the autobiographical . The first autobiography in the English language , The Book of Margery Kempe , originates ...
... Writing . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . Dockray - Miller , Mary . Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo - Saxon England . New York : St. Martin's Press , 2000 . Dor , Juliette , Lesley Johnson and Jocelyn Wogan - Browne ...
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Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Women and the Family | 91 |
Copyright | |
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