The fourth estate
Subtitle: a history of women in the Middle Ages
By: Shulamith Shahar.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Public and legal rights; title: Nuns; title: Married women; title: Women in the nobility; title: Townswomen; title: Women in the peasantry; title: Witches and the heretical movements.