The fourth estate : a history of women in the Middle Ages /
"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 centuri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
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| Summary: | "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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 351 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415308518 (pbk. : alk. paper) |