The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages
In: EBL-Schweitzer
The Fourth EstateA history of women in the Middle Ages; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; 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; Notes; Index. - 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