Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored.
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500 celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.
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Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored.
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500 celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.
