Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late me…
Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late me…
A unique recovery of the history of women's lives in England during the medieval period basing its scholarship on primary sources and not on the 19th century assumptions underlying most studies of the period. Leyser (medieval history, St. Peter's College and St. Edmund Hall, Oxf…
Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women. The book opens with the coming of the Anglo-Saxons to England in the fifth century and looks at the variety of sources that can throw light on the lives and contributions to th…