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 centuries.

• • Author: Shulamith Shahar
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Feb 01, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 392 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138135461
• • ISBN-13: 9781138135468