The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle AgesDid 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. |
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Contents
Public and Legal Rights | |
Nuns | |
Married Women | |
Women in the Nobility | |
Townswomen | |
Women in the Peasantry | |
Witches and the Heretical Movements | |
Notes | |
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| Title | The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages |
| Author | Shulamith Shahar |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134394209, 9781134394203 |
| Length | 390 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Medieval History / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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