Fourth Estate - A History of Women in the Middle Ages

Zusatztext `Wide ranging and scholarly.'  – Times Higher Education Supplement Informationen zum Autor Shulamith Shahar Klappentext Did women really constitute a 'fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung Did women really constitute a 'fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction 2 Public and Legal Rights 3 Nuns 4 Married Women 5 Women in the Nobility 6 Townswomen 7 Women in the Peasantry 8 Witches and the Heretical Movements

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• Authors: Shulamith Shahar, Shulamith (Tel Aviv University Shahar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781138135468
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13546-8
• No. of pages: 390
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History