The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9781138135468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 390 str.

Shulamith Shahar

Opis

Did women really constitute a fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.

Recenzje

`Wide ranging and scholarly.' – Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Public and Legal Rights 3 Nuns 4 Married Women 5 Women in the Nobility 6 Townswomen 7 Women in the Peasantry 8 Witches and the Heretical Movements

O autorze

Shulamith Shahar