The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar
English | May 30, 2003 | ISBN: 0415308518 | 390 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | May 30, 2003 | ISBN: 0415308518 | 390 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
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.