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The Medieval Housewife And Other Women Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Toni Mount
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-15
The Medieval Housewife And Other Women Of The Middle Ages written by Toni Mount and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with History categories.
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this fascinating book. More has been written about medieval women in the last twenty years than in the two whole centuries before that. Female authors of the medieval period have been rediscovered and translated; queens are no longer thought of as merely decorative brood mares for their royal husbands and have merited their own biographies. In the past, historians have tended to look at what women could not do. In this book we will look at the lives of medieval women in a more positive light, finding out what rights and opportunities they enjoyed and attempting to uncover the real women beneath the layers of dust accumulated over the centuries.
The Medieval Housewife
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Author : Toni Mount
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-11-15
The Medieval Housewife written by Toni Mount and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with History categories.
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out in this fascinating book.
Medieval Housewives And Women Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Toni Mount
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Medieval Housewives And Women Of The Middle Ages written by Toni Mount and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Women categories.
Women In Medieval Europe
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Author : Jennifer Ward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
Women In Medieval Europe written by Jennifer Ward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with History categories.
Women in Medieval Europe were expected to be submissive, but such a broad picture ignores great areas of female experience. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, women are found in the workplace as well as the home, and some women were numbered among the key rulers, saints and mystics of the medieval world. Opportunities and activities changed over time, and by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted for women. Women of all social groups were primarily engaged with their families, looking after husband and children, and running the household. Patterns of work varied geographically. In the northern towns, women engaged in a wide range of crafts, with a small number becoming entrepreneurs. Many of the poor made a living as servants and labourers. Prostitution flourished in many medieval towns. Some women turned to the religious life, and here opportunities burgeoned in the thirteenth century. The Middle Ages are not remote from the twenty-first century; the lives of medieval women evoke a response today. The medieval mother faced similar problems to her modern counterpart. The sheer variety of women’s experience in the later Middle Ages is fully brought out in this book.
Medieval Women
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Author : Eileen Power
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997
Medieval Women written by Eileen Power and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.
Medieval Woman
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Author : Ann Baer
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2012-12-14
Medieval Woman written by Ann Baer and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-14 with History categories.
A year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife, and her extended family. Based on years of research, Ann Baer brings to life the reality of a world that has been lost. Rising before dawn in a tiny village to a day of gruelling hard work, Marion and her husband face the daily struggle for survival. Starvation is never far away and travel to the next village is virtually unheard of. Existing without soap, paper or glass and with only the most basic of tools, sickness, fire and natural disaster ever threaten to engulf the small, tightly knit community. At the mercy of the weather and the Lord of the Manor, each equally unpredictable and inescapable, Marion's life is burdensome but also displays an admirable dignity and fortitude in the face of adversity. The little village is at one with the natural world around it and each member has a role to play and a place in the hierarchy. Simple people, living unrecorded lives in remote villages not on the way to anywhere are brought back into focus in Medieval Woman. Ann Baer defines and celebrates the woman at the heart of the community. This is a unique approach to history, compressing decades of in-depth research on the Middle Ages into one single, immersive, compelling narrative.
Women And Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Mary Erler
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1988
Women And Power In The Middle Ages written by Mary Erler and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Women In England In The Middle Ages
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Author : Jennifer Ward
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-10-12
Women In England In The Middle Ages written by Jennifer Ward and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-12 with History categories.
Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be reconstructed with accuracy from a variety of sources. We know more about a far smaller number of elite women, including queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou; noblewomen, whose characters and attitudes can be sensed directly or indirectly; and a variety of religious women. Literary sources help flesh out real attitudes, such as those of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Jennifer Ward shows the life-cycle of medieval women, from birth, via marriage and child-rearing, to widowhood and death. She also brings out the slow changes in the position of women over a millennium.
Illuminating Women In The Medieval World
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Author : Christine Sciacca
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2017-06-06
Illuminating Women In The Medieval World written by Christine Sciacca and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Art categories.
When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women’s roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life—from preoccupations with biblical heroines and saints to courtship, childbirth, and motherhood. While men dominated artistic production, this volume demonstrates the ways in which female artists, authors, and patrons were instrumental in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Featuring over one hundred illuminations depicting medieval women from England to Ethiopia, this book provides a lively and accessible introduction to the lives of women in the medieval world.
Women In Medieval Times
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Author : Fiona Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Brighter Child
Release Date : 2000
Women In Medieval Times written by Fiona Macdonald and has been published by Brighter Child this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Looks at the lives and social conditions of women in medieval Europe.