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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... court , but they were relatively few and heavily outnumbered by male officials , clerics , and men - at - arms , as well as the vast crowd of male hangers - on that swarmed around the court . In the fifteenth century Christine de Pizan ...
... court , but they were relatively few and heavily outnumbered by male officials , clerics , and men - at - arms , as well as the vast crowd of male hangers - on that swarmed around the court . In the fifteenth century Christine de Pizan ...
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... court claiming the prior marriage . When Edmund admitted the pre- vious contract , the court divorced him from Agnes . The aggrieved wife then sought the return of her dowry and finally sued in the king's court where Edmund tried , by ...
... court claiming the prior marriage . When Edmund admitted the pre- vious contract , the court divorced him from Agnes . The aggrieved wife then sought the return of her dowry and finally sued in the king's court where Edmund tried , by ...
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... court rolls . Each rural community had its own appointed ale - tasters , almost always male , who had to approve the measures used , and the quality and pricing of each batch before sale . The expectation , and reality , of sharp ...
... court rolls . Each rural community had its own appointed ale - tasters , almost always male , who had to approve the measures used , and the quality and pricing of each batch before sale . The expectation , and reality , of sharp ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
Copyright | |
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abbess abbey abbot Abelard active Agnes Alice became beguines bishop Blanche Blanche of Castile British Library brother castle Cathars childbirth Christine de Pizan church Cistercian Clare clerical convent countess court crusade daughter death Dhuoda died early ecclesiastical Edward Eleanor Eleanor of Aquitaine Elizabeth emphasis encouraged England English female fifteenth century fourteenth century France French girls heir Héloïse Henry Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen hospital Hôtel-Dieu household husband important influence insisted Isabella Jeanne king king's lands later lepers lives livres Lollard London Louis Mahaut male manor Margery Margery Kempe Marguerite Marie marriage married medicine medieval medieval women Middle Ages mother mystics noble ladies nunnery nuns occasionally officials Paris peasant piety practical prioress prostitutes queen Radegund recluse recognised religious responsibility rich royal rule secular servants sick sisters social suggests thirteenth century trade trans treatise twelfth century widow wife wives woman wrote young