Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe

by David Herlihy and David Herlihy

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In the early Middle Ages, until as late as the thirteenth century, women were active and independent participants in many sectors of economic life. Even apart from agriculture, they were prominent in all phases of cloth making, in brewing, medicine, education, administration, and in the dispensation of religious counsel. In the late Middle Ages, clearly so by the fifteenth century, women lost that prominence as well as their economic independence...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0877227144

ISBN13:9780877227144

Release Date:February 1990

Publisher:Temple University Press

Length:210 Pages

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Economics Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies History Labor & Industrial Relations Nonfiction Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Women's Studies

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