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The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books -- time. The Gieses' succeed in making a remote and unfamiliar world accessible -- Kirkus Reviews.

Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.

Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts.