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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... live out their lives in less exhausting conditions than those of unrelieved hard physical labour . Even by the twelfth century a change in the proportion of women in the population is suggested by the fact that it was now the girl's ...
... live out their lives in less exhausting conditions than those of unrelieved hard physical labour . Even by the twelfth century a change in the proportion of women in the population is suggested by the fact that it was now the girl's ...
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... lives of the upper class . Since important men were always much more visible to medieval chroniclers , more interested in their warlike , knightly , or ecclesiastical activities , the growth and survival of such records as private ...
... lives of the upper class . Since important men were always much more visible to medieval chroniclers , more interested in their warlike , knightly , or ecclesiastical activities , the growth and survival of such records as private ...
Page 245
... Lives of the Saints , ed . H. Thurston and D. Atwater ( London 1956 ) 2 , 623-26 , trans . from Acta Sanctorum , June 5 23 Hefele - Leclerq , Histoire des Conciles ( Paris 1873 ) 9 , 431 24 For Mechtild , see infra , 133 ; for ...
... Lives of the Saints , ed . H. Thurston and D. Atwater ( London 1956 ) 2 , 623-26 , trans . from Acta Sanctorum , June 5 23 Hefele - Leclerq , Histoire des Conciles ( Paris 1873 ) 9 , 431 24 For Mechtild , see infra , 133 ; for ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
Copyright | |
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