Women in Medieval Europe by Jennifer Ward

Women in Medieval Europe by Jennifer Ward

The conventional view of women in medieval Europe was one of submissiveness and obedience. But as this book shows, such a bland and generalised picture ignores great areas of female experience. Jennifer Ward compares and contrasts the lives and experiences of women across Europe, including examples from Spain, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe as well as the France, Germany, Italy and England.  Looking at all the major themes in women's history for this period - female saints, marriage, the arts, the family, women and their relationship with popular religion, work,  power - this synthesis of recent research explores the experiences of medieval women across Europe in all their diversity.

Women in Medieval Europe is full of original insights; and alongside such figures as Joan of Arc and Margery Kempe are a host of less familiar women presented in social contexts that necessarily include the men who were their contemporaries: from kin, peers and partners, to judges and spiritual guidesThis is a book to inform and enthuse expert scholar, enterprising student and interested general reader alike.’

Janet Nelson, King’s College London

Jennifer Ward has taught Medieval History in the Dept of Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her previous books include English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (Longman 1992).

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ISBN 13	9780582288270
ISBN 10	0582288274
Titre	Women in Medieval Europe
Auteur	Jennifer Ward
Série	Longman History Of European Women
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Année de publication	2002-09-30
Nombre de pages	336
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