Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - GoodreadsGreat look at women in the Middle Ages. The book works because of its two section. The first is a general introduction and the second takes a look at women of various classes, usually focusing on one or two women, sometimes more. Readable.
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Kimberly - Goodreads“Women in Middle Ages” is very interesting and useful especially when you make a study about it and what it feels like to be the women in middle ages. In this book you will meet some people/women that ... Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Kathy - GoodreadsThis book was both entertaining and educational. I expected to find the same thing that I found in Caleb's Crossing: that women have few rights and limited roles in economically primitive societies ... Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Karen Brooks - GoodreadsI love anything written by this couple; always entertaining, always educational, they do their research, combine it with their sound knowledge of the era or people they are writing about and produce ... Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Erik Graff - GoodreadsThis book attempts to outline the positions of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, roughly 500 to 1500. Towards this purpose six short biographies of individual women, each representing a different class, are presented, all of them nested in a general discussion of medieval life. Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Kathy Petersen - GoodreadsMy husband gave this to me for my 45th birthday, a great joke! and an interesting read. The historical Middle Ages was a very long period, and the Gies' book hardly pretends to cover all aspects of ... Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides - GoodreadsDates is a likely wildly inaccurate guesstimation. Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - PaulineMRoss - GoodreadsI read a lot of fantasy novels, many of which are set in a gloomy created world not unlike the European middle ages. This book was my attempt to see whether the truly dismal picture painted therein ... Read full review
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User Review - Melanie Childress - GoodreadsVery interesting, I just wish there was more. Read full review
Review: Women in the Middle Ages
User Review - Michael Barnette - GoodreadsAn in depth offering of how women lived in the middle ages from this husband and wife team of authors. I cannot recommend their books highly enough for people interested in medieval history or those ... Read full review