ILLUMINATING WOMEN IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convent s, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women s roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence . The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life from preoccupa tions wit...[Llegir més]