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 73
... rich young merchant ; her second , Sir Alan Buxhall , keeper of the Tower and a Knight of the Garter ; and her third the ill - fated John Montague , earl of Salisbury who was executed for treason in 1400. Her children continued their ...
... rich young merchant ; her second , Sir Alan Buxhall , keeper of the Tower and a Knight of the Garter ; and her third the ill - fated John Montague , earl of Salisbury who was executed for treason in 1400. Her children continued their ...
Page 107
... rich and powerful abbey of St. Albans , her life was written . Generally in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was the current of enthusiasm for the Cistercians that affected women as well as men . The Cistercian general chapter ...
... rich and powerful abbey of St. Albans , her life was written . Generally in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was the current of enthusiasm for the Cistercians that affected women as well as men . The Cistercian general chapter ...
Page 108
... Rich , the saintly scholar and preacher who later became archbishop of Canterbury . After her hus- band's death in 1226 the vigorous countess , now around forty , first turned her efforts to ensuring the safe transmittal of the ...
... Rich , the saintly scholar and preacher who later became archbishop of Canterbury . After her hus- band's death in 1226 the vigorous countess , now around forty , first turned her efforts to ensuring the safe transmittal of the ...
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