Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 write by Lisa M. Bitel. This book was released on 2002-10-24. Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a history of the early European middle ages through the eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's history with original research in the context of mainstream history and traditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Roman empire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, when women and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The book recreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personal stories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumption of medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced by women themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and the written records of medieval men, to tell of women, their experiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers the continent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, and Iberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.
Land of Women
Land of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land of Women write by Lisa M. Bitel. This book was released on 1998. Land of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Gender in Medieval Europe write by Margaret Schaus. This book was released on 2006. Women and Gender in Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Women in Medieval Europe
Women in Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Medieval Europe write by Jennifer Ward. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Women in Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women in Medieval Europe were expected to be submissive, but such a broad picture ignores great areas of female experience. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, women are found in the workplace as well as the home, and some women were numbered among the key rulers, saints and mystics of the medieval world. Opportunities and activities changed over time, and by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted for women. Women of all social groups were primarily engaged with their families, looking after husband and children, and running the household. Patterns of work varied geographically. In the northern towns, women engaged in a wide range of crafts, with a small number becoming entrepreneurs. Many of the poor made a living as servants and labourers. Prostitution flourished in many medieval towns. Some women turned to the religious life, and here opportunities burgeoned in the thirteenth century. The Middle Ages are not remote from the twenty-first century; the lives of medieval women evoke a response today. The medieval mother faced similar problems to her modern counterpart. The sheer variety of women’s experience in the later Middle Ages is fully brought out in this book.
Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400
Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400 write by Heather J. Tanner. This book was released on 2019-01-09. Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on the premise that elite women in positions of authority were expected, accepted, and routine, these essays traverse the cities and kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Portugal, and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in order to illuminate women’s roles in medieval power structures. Without losing sight of the predominance of patriarchy and misogyny, contributors lay the groundwork for the acceptance of female public authority as normal in medieval society, fostering a new framework for understanding medieval elite women and power.
