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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... nuns like Leoba in the early Middle Ages could work for the conversion of pagans of ordinary status . One other sign that the early Middle Ages was a particularly good era in which to be a nun was the flourishing of education in ...
... nuns by 1250 , whereas English nun- neries in the same era were home to only 2,500 to 5,000 nuns.8 While the number of nuns varied between regions of Western Europe , one thing remained constant : they were always poorer than their male ...
... nuns . Nuns also turned to the copying and illustration of manuscripts as a source of income . Diemud of Wessobrun , a German nun of the eleventh to twelfth centuries , was known to have copied around 45 manuscripts and to have acquired ...
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Medieval Women | 1 |
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
Copyright | |
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