Women in England in the Middle Ages

by Jennifer C. Ward

Book Overview

Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands of their communities. Of many women in the period of a thousand years before 1500 we know little or nothing, though their typical ways of life, on farms or in the towns, can be reconstructed with accuracy from a variety of sources. We know more about a far smaller number of elite women, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852853468
• ISBN13: 9781852853464
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"