Women of the Medieval World - Couverture souple

Kirschner, Julius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631154922 ISBN 13 : 9780631154921

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 1987

Synopsis

This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs.

As this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. Leah Lydia Otis, for example, looks at the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; Helen Rodnite Lemay discusses medieval gynecology; and Julius Kirshner provides a revolutionary study of wives' claims against insolvent husbands, challenging the notion that the legal rights of women deteriorated in late medieval Italy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julius Kirshner and Suzanne Wemple are the authors of Women of the Medieval World, published by Wiley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631154922
• ISBN 13: 9780631154921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible