Medieval Women
Trade Paperback
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 celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781842126219
- Author: Henrietta Leyser
- Pub date: 01.01.06
- RRP: $38.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Henrietta Leyser
Henrietta Leyser is a lecturer in medieval history at St Peter's College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She studied history at Oxford University both as an undergraduate and as a graduate, and she has taught and lectured at universities in Great Britain and the USA.