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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... York : Oxford University Press , 2000 ) , 289 . 58. " The Rules of Saint Robert Grosseteste , " Andy Staples , 2002. Available online at http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/doc.grossetesterules.htm 59. Christine de Pisan , Treasury of the City ...
... York ( England ) , for instance , left 12d . to each poor woman or widow with children in the parish of St. Saviour in his will of 1458.80 Others supported poor widows by lending them property : Matilda Sherlok of Pinch- beck , along ...
... York , Duchess of Burgundy 1446-1503 . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 . Wemple , Suzanne Fonay . Women in Frankish Society : Marriage and the Cloister , 500 to 900. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1981 . Wheeler ...
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Medieval Women | 1 |
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
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