| Description |
xi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and index. |
| Summary |
"Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.' "--John Bugge, Emory University from back cover. |
| Contents |
1. Written with your own hand -- 2. Be it ever so humble -- 3. From a crooked rib -- 4. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- 5. "Like a dog to his master" -- 6. Never on Sunday -- 7. Naked statues and holy bones -- 8. Floating to the rafters -- 9. If ignorance were a woman's passport to paradise -- 10. Abracadabra -- 11. Whipped with a handful of flax -- 12. Displayed no womanly cowardice -- 13. Never better ruled by any man -- 14. Eat, drink, and be merry -- 15. "The working of a woman's wit" -- 16. That which talent confers. |
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Appendix 1. Class structure -- Appendix 2. Money -- Appendix 3. Life expectancy for women. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Black power -- United States.
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Black or African American -- History -- 1964-
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Europe.
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Women -- Middle Ages.
(OCoLC)fst01907280
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Vrouwen.
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Middeleeuwen.
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femme -- Moyen-Âge.
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| Chronological Term |
500-1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Echols, Anne.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Williams, Marty. Between pit and pedestal. Princeton, N.J. : Markus Wiener Publishers, ©1994 (OCoLC)988395106 |
| ISBN |
0910129339 (hc ; acid-free paper) |
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9780910129336 (hc ; acid-free paper) |
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0910129347 (pb ; acid-free paper) |
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9780910129343 (pb ; acid-free paper) |
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1910129347 |
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