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

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:	9781134394203
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	390
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Shulamith Shahar

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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