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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Page 29
... official . Even in a small house the responsibility placed on the lower officials could be extensive , while an abbess , as head of the house and representative of its corporate exist- ence , was always an important woman in her ...
... official . Even in a small house the responsibility placed on the lower officials could be extensive , while an abbess , as head of the house and representative of its corporate exist- ence , was always an important woman in her ...
Page 88
... official and dealt with large sums of money , for her expenses were rarely less than 4,000 livres a year , and often ... officials , and her almoner who normally doubled as chaplain . The members of her household were given presents on ...
... official and dealt with large sums of money , for her expenses were rarely less than 4,000 livres a year , and often ... officials , and her almoner who normally doubled as chaplain . The members of her household were given presents on ...
Page 153
... officials , rather than a royal official or the trade itself . The statutes of many Toulouse trades took for granted that women would be accepted on the same basis as men , but the public officials of the guild or corporation were ...
... officials , rather than a royal official or the trade itself . The statutes of many Toulouse trades took for granted that women would be accepted on the same basis as men , but the public officials of the guild or corporation were ...
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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