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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... females . Female mortality appears to have been high in proportion to that of men . One Carolingian document listing the peasants of St. Victor of Marseilles suggests that the initial preponderance of female children had already ...
... females . Female mortality appears to have been high in proportion to that of men . One Carolingian document listing the peasants of St. Victor of Marseilles suggests that the initial preponderance of female children had already ...
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... female community . They were completely at ease , both about being women and still exercising authority in their role as interpreters of the divine . The Helfta mystics encouraged and assisted the spread of the devotions which were the ...
... female community . They were completely at ease , both about being women and still exercising authority in their role as interpreters of the divine . The Helfta mystics encouraged and assisted the spread of the devotions which were the ...
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... female singers and a woman bellringer . 10 Young women acrobats and tumblers occasion- ally formed part of a troop of minstrels . Sometimes these had Saracen connotations , like the girls at the court of Frederic II whose balancing on ...
... female singers and a woman bellringer . 10 Young women acrobats and tumblers occasion- ally formed part of a troop of minstrels . Sometimes these had Saracen connotations , like the girls at the court of Frederic II whose balancing on ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
Copyright | |
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