"This bookre-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 11001800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on womens working experiences, and by adopting ne…
Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the med…
A history of women in the West
by Duby, Georges, Perrot, Michelle, Schmitt Pantel, Pauline
[This] volume brings women from the margins of ancient history into the fore. It offers fresh insight into more than twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history and encompasses a landscape that stretches from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and from the Pillars of Hercules to…
A history of women in the West
by Duby, Georges, Perrot, Michelle, Pantel, Pauline Schmitt
A history of women in the West
by Duby, Georges, Perrot, Michelle, Pantel, Pauline Schmitt
A History of women in the West
by Duby, Georges, Perrot, Michelle
fromHistory of women in the West
A history of women in the West
by Duby, Georges, Perrot, Michelle, Pantel, Pauline Schmitt
Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world and during the Middle Ages.
Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.