Shulamith Shahar, "The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1138135461 | 2016 | 392 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
English | ISBN: 1138135461 | 2016 | 392 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
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.