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The Fourth Estate [Elektronische Ressource] : A History of Women in the Middle Ages

Šaḥar, Šûlammît,i1928-

2nd ed.

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

390 p.

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978-0-415-30851-9

 

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978-0-203-42639-5

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.