Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague

by Judith M. Bennett

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Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the myth of a "golden age" of equality for medieval men and women. Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195045610

ISBN13:9780195045611

Release Date:October 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:338 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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Business & Finance Business Development Development & Growth Economics England Europe Feminist Theory Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies History

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