num_pages: 390
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.
language: English
title: The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages
titlecomplete: The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages
genres: Nonfiction, History, Feminism, Medieval
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Routledge