Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe

by David Herlihy and David Herlihy

Book Overview

In the early Middle Ages, until as late as the thirteenth century, women were active and independent participants in many sectors of economic life. Even apart from agriculture, they were prominent in all phases of cloth making, in brewing, medicine, education, administration, and in the dispensation of religious counsel. In the late Middle Ages, clearly so by the fifteenth century, women lost that prominence as well as their economic independence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877227144
• ISBN13: 9780877227144
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 210 Pages