Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c.500 - 1200 by Helen M. Jewell

'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. Three individuals who vastly exceeded these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter.Ĭombining a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years with more recent scholarship, this is as indispensable introduction for anyone with an interest in women's history from the late Medieval period through to the Reformation. This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of the gender theories inherited from the earlier Middle Ages which continued to underpin laws which restricted women's activity, an education system which offered them inferior institutional provision, and a church which denied them ministry. the role of women in the ruling and landholding classes Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200 / Edition 1 available in Paperback Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c. Jewell provides a lively survey of western European womens activities and experiences during this timeframe. Jewell, Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe C.5001200 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 59. the function of women in the countryside and towns

Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timeframe. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in the same ways. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. It estimates and seeks to explain the number of people who were alive during the Medieval period, population trends, life expectancy, family structure, and related issues. The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. Early Medieval History Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200 Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c. Medieval demography is the study of human demography in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages.

Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c.500 - 1200 by Helen M. Jewell