| The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages Contributor(s): Shahar, Shulamith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415308518 ISBN-13: 9780415308519 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: 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 varying attitudes to women and their status in Western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. She draws a cohesive picture of women in a range of situations: nuns and married women, peasants and noblewomen, townswomen, and women involved in heretical movements and witchcraft. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2002153867 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.46" W x 8.48" (1.10 lbs) 390 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |