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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350009684)
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xThe 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, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender.
A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.Author: Kim M. Phillips
ISBN-10: 1350009687
ISBN-13: 9781350009684
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2016
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 0.80d
By Kim M. Phillips
xKim M. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and author of Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1275-1540 and co-author of Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
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