
2nd Edition
The Fourth Estate
A History of Women in the Middle Ages
Copyright Year 2003
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Book Description
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.
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`Wide ranging and scholarly.' – Times Higher Education Supplement