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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815964503321

Autore

Shahar Shulamith

Titolo

The fourth estate : a history of women in the Middle Ages / / Shulamith Shahar ; translated by Chaya Galai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-39420-9

1-138-13546-1

0-203-42639-8

1-134-39421-7

1-280-02492-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Disciplina

305.40902

305.420940902

Soggetti

Women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Europe History 476-1492

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Die Frau im Mittelalter.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Fourth EstateA history of women in the Middle Ages; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; 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; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.