Medieval Women by Eileen Power
A concise, readable survey of women's lives in medieval Europe that brings together case studies and documentary evidence to show how women of different classes—nobility, clergy, townspeople and peasants—navigated marriage, household management, work, religious vocation and law; the book highlights both the restrictions imposed by patriarchal structures and the significant economic, social and spiritual agency many women exercised, drawing on charters, letters, hagiography and legal records to recover everyday realities and exceptional careers across several centuries.
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