The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages - Softcover

Mount, Toni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445643707 ISBN 13: 9781445643700

Publisher: Amberley Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this fascinating book.

More has been written about medieval women in the last twenty years than in the two whole centuries before that. Female authors of the medieval period have been rediscovered and translated; queens are no longer thought of as merely decorative brood mares for their royal husbands and have merited their own biographies. In the past, historians have tended to look at what women could not do. In this book we will look at the lives of medieval women in a more positive light, finding out what rights and opportunities they enjoyed and attempting to uncover the real women beneath the layers of dust accumulated over the centuries.

About this title

About the Author:

Toni Mount has been a history teacher for fifteen years. She has an MA by Research on medieval medical manuscripts from the University of Kent. Born in London, Toni now lives in Gravesend, Kent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1445643707
• ISBN 13: 9781445643700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96