Gies, Frances
Women in the Middle Ages. Frances & Joseph Gies - New York Thomas Y. Crowell 1978 - 264 p.
Contents:
Background: Women in history
Women in the early middle ages
Women and feudalism
Eve and Mary
Women: Abbess, Hildegarde of Bingen
Reigning Queen, Blanche of Castile
Great lady, Eleanor de Montfort
Piers Plowman's wife
City working woman, Agnes li Patiniere of Douai; Women and the guilds
Margherita Datini, An Italian merchant's wife
Margaret Paston, A fifteenth-century gentlewoman
Middle ages and after
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Women in the middle ages corrects the omissions of traditional history by focusing on the lives, expectations, and accomplishments of medieval women. The Gieses' lively text, illuminated by illustrations from medieval manuscripts, art, and architecture, depicts the middle ages as a vibrant time of transition in which women, with their shifting roles were powerful agents of change. from cover
0690017243
Women --History
Middle ages
Social Conditions
Europe --Biography
301.4120902 Gis 9
Women in the Middle Ages. Frances & Joseph Gies - New York Thomas Y. Crowell 1978 - 264 p.
Contents:
Background: Women in history
Women in the early middle ages
Women and feudalism
Eve and Mary
Women: Abbess, Hildegarde of Bingen
Reigning Queen, Blanche of Castile
Great lady, Eleanor de Montfort
Piers Plowman's wife
City working woman, Agnes li Patiniere of Douai; Women and the guilds
Margherita Datini, An Italian merchant's wife
Margaret Paston, A fifteenth-century gentlewoman
Middle ages and after
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Women in the middle ages corrects the omissions of traditional history by focusing on the lives, expectations, and accomplishments of medieval women. The Gieses' lively text, illuminated by illustrations from medieval manuscripts, art, and architecture, depicts the middle ages as a vibrant time of transition in which women, with their shifting roles were powerful agents of change. from cover
0690017243
Women --History
Middle ages
Social Conditions
Europe --Biography
301.4120902 Gis 9