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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... earliest childhood that they were pawns in their family's search for profitable alliances . During these early centuries when the ecclesiastical prohibitions on marriage within the forbidden degrees of relationship were at their ...
... earliest childhood that they were pawns in their family's search for profitable alliances . During these early centuries when the ecclesiastical prohibitions on marriage within the forbidden degrees of relationship were at their ...
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... early nuns not only read , some were definitely encouraged to act as professional scribes , and several nunneries had their own scriptoria . During the ninth century it became evident that this emphasis on schooling and books had gone ...
... early nuns not only read , some were definitely encouraged to act as professional scribes , and several nunneries had their own scriptoria . During the ninth century it became evident that this emphasis on schooling and books had gone ...
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... Early Civic Wills of York ' , Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers 33 , pt . 1 ( 1915 ) , 167–76 . Juetta as executrix , 173 9 Ibid . , 161-62 10 Fifty Earliest English Wills , ed . F. J. Furnivall , EETs o.s. 78 ( 1882 ) ...
... Early Civic Wills of York ' , Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers 33 , pt . 1 ( 1915 ) , 167–76 . Juetta as executrix , 173 9 Ibid . , 161-62 10 Fifty Earliest English Wills , ed . F. J. Furnivall , EETs o.s. 78 ( 1882 ) ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
Copyright | |
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