The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages / Edition 2

by Shulamith Shahar

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415308519
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/17/2003
Edition description:	New
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

‘Wide ranging and scholarly.' – Times Higher Education Supplement

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