A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages by Martha Easton, Cordelia Beattie, Jennifer Borland, Rachel Dressler, Iona McCleery, Lois L. Huneycutt, Katherine L. French, Marian Bleeke, April Harper, Elizabeth L'Estrange, Sandy Bardsley, Kim M. Phillips

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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages

Martha Easton, Cordelia Beattie, Jennifer Borland, Rachel Dressler, Iona McCleery, Lois L. Huneycutt, Katherine L. French, Marian Bleeke, April Harper, Elizabeth L'Estrange, Sandy Bardsley, Kim M. Phillips

352 pages • hardcover • 16 editions

nonfiction gender history

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The medieval era has been described as 'the 'Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, bu...