Women in the Middle Ages: A-J
Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The encyclopedia covers the myriad, experiences, and contributions of women in de medieval world.
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Women and Girls in the Middle Ages
Author: Kay Eastwood
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778713463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women and Girls in the Middle Ages shows the roles and duties of women and girls of the nobility and peasantry, and the choices they had. Special emphasis on medieval dress and beauty, women of power, and women of other lands during the same period in history.
Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Author: Mary Erler
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0820323810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200
Author: Helen Jewell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2006-10-04
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0230213790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in the same ways. Helen M. Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timeframe. The core chapters investigate: - The function of women in the countryside and towns - The role of women in the ruling and landholding classes - Women within the context of religion This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of the gender theories inherited from the earlier Middle Ages which continued to underpin laws which restricted women's activity, an education system which offered them inferior institutional provision, and a church which denied them ministry. Three individuals who vastly exceeded these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter. Combining a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years with more recent scholarship, this is as indispensable introduction for anyone with an interest in women's history from the late Medieval period through to the Reformation.
Women in the Middle Ages
Women in England in the Middle Ages
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-10-12
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0826419852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be reconstructed with accuracy from a variety of sources. We know more about a far smaller number of elite women, including queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou; noblewomen, whose characters and attitudes can be sensed directly or indirectly; and a variety of religious women. Literary sources help flesh out real attitudes, such as those of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Jennifer Ward shows the life-cycle of medieval women, from birth, via marriage and child-rearing, to widowhood and death. She also brings out the slow changes in the position of women over a millennium.
A History of Women in the West
Author: Georges Duby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780674403680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.
The Fourth Estate
Author: Shulamith Shahar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1134394209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Women in the Middle Ages
Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780415936767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive reference work is devoted exclusively to the women of the medieval world and covers not only the literature but also the history and sociology, religion and philosophy, art and music of women living from late antiquity to the fifteenth century.
Women's Lives in Medieval Europe
Author: Emilie Amt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1134720602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.
