A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval LifeDescribes the daily life of noblewomen, nuns, and peasants in feudal England and Europe, looks at the treatment of lepers, beggars, prostitutes, and criminals, and offers brief profiles of prominent medieval women. |
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... Radegund at Poitiers , Hilda at Whitby , and Lioba , the English nun who followed Boniface to Germany and aided in its Christianisation by setting up convents . The representative abbesses of these early centuries were all women of ...
... Radegund at Poitiers , Hilda at Whitby , and Lioba , the English nun who followed Boniface to Germany and aided in its Christianisation by setting up convents . The representative abbesses of these early centuries were all women of ...
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... Radegund , for example , was born a princess of Thuringia . She had been captured as a child by Chlotar , the youngest son of Clovis , the first Christian king of the Franks . Radegund was brought up at a French convent to serve as her ...
... Radegund , for example , was born a princess of Thuringia . She had been captured as a child by Chlotar , the youngest son of Clovis , the first Christian king of the Franks . Radegund was brought up at a French convent to serve as her ...
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... Radegund's expected virtues of piety and self - denial but , more realistically , on her feminine attributes of maternal solicitude for her nuns , her attempts to serve as peacemaker among her husband's kin , and her effort to develop ...
... Radegund's expected virtues of piety and self - denial but , more realistically , on her feminine attributes of maternal solicitude for her nuns , her attempts to serve as peacemaker among her husband's kin , and her effort to develop ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
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