Shulamith Shahar

The Fourth Estate

A History of Women in the Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780415308519
• ISBN-10: 0415308518
• Artikelnr.: 21711114

Autorenporträt

Shulamith Shahar

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

`Wide ranging and scholarly.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

`Wide ranging and scholarly.' - Times Higher Education Supplement