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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... tended to make less money than monasteries , because even monasteries without large numbers of ordained priests fared better than nunneries . Throughout the Middle Ages , families tended to invest less in their daughters than in their ...
... tended to be downplayed by Jewish authors . Rather than being 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 ...
... tended to cluster in a few trades in particular . This section will focus on women's work as slaves and domestic servants , women's work in the food and beverage industries , women's work in the textile industry , women's work as ...
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Medieval Women | 1 |
Women and Religion | 27 |
Women and Work | 59 |
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