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Women in the Middle Ages: The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition

Women in the Middle Ages: The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition

Gies, Joseph
Gies, Frances

Paperback

Series: Medieval Life

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0060923040
ISBN13: 9780060923044
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Oct 16 1991
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.

Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women during this period have been too often relegated to the dustbin of history. In Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies reclaim this lost history, in a lively historical survey that charts the evolution of women's roles throughout the period, and profiles eight individual women in depth. We learn of Hildegarde of Bingen, an abbess who was a noted composer and founded two monasteries; of Eleanor de Montfort, a 13th century Princess of Wales who was captured by Edward I and held as a political prisoner for three years; and women of somewhat more modest means, such as the spouse of an Italian merchant, and a peasant's wife.

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