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 communities , often in double monasteries . The popes tried to protect the rights of these female members , but the men found the nuns an economic burden as well as one which might require them to detach too many of their monks ...
... female communities , often in double monasteries . The popes tried to protect the rights of these female members , but the men found the nuns an economic burden as well as one which might require them to detach too many of their monks ...
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... female , 224-27 : see Matilda Makejoy mystics , female , 129-42 , 223 : see Birgitta of Sweden , Colette of Corbie , Gertrude of Helfta , Hildegard of Bingen , Julian of Norwich , Margery Kempe , Mechtild of Hackeborn , Mechtild of ...
... female , 224-27 : see Matilda Makejoy mystics , female , 129-42 , 223 : see Birgitta of Sweden , Colette of Corbie , Gertrude of Helfta , Hildegard of Bingen , Julian of Norwich , Margery Kempe , Mechtild of Hackeborn , Mechtild of ...
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