2nd Edition
The Fourth Estate A History of Women in the Middle Ages
By Shulamith Shahar
Copyright 2003
390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Shulamith Shahar
`Wide ranging and scholarly.' – Times Higher Education Supplement
