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Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-03 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the product
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern
Language: en
Pages: 333
Pages: 333
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-08 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we d
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly re
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: JHU Press
"Rather than attempting to encompass all of Middle Age Europe, this study selects two writers, Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, and their four romances. It
