Medieval Women: Social History Of Women In England 450-1500
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Medieval Women: Social History Of Women In England 450-1500
By (Author) Henrietta Leyser
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1st January 2003
1st August 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
European history: medieval period, middle ages
305.420942
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 27mm
259g
Description
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored. MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.
Author Bio
Henrietta Leyser is a lecturer in medieval history at St Peter's College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She studied history at Oxford University both as an undergraduate and as a graduate, and she has taught and lectured at universities in Great Britain and the USA.
