Medieval Women. Social History Of Women In England 450-1500, Paperback - Henrietta Leyser

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Henr...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.Publishe...

Reducere. What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?"Wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. An insightful, modern look at the lives of women ...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 ...

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War

Excavating Women discusses the careers of women archaeologists, who against all odds became famous, as well as the many lesser-known personalities ...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

Reducere. In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

A one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present. Comb...

This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres t...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the perio...

First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Thijs PorckIllustr...

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff.

Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries.

Reducere. Women were once considered second-class citizens. It took years of struggle and a lot of great women to break that stereotype. This book features t...

Reducere. Now available in paperback Winner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill Award Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of Americ...

Contains fascinating details of the lives and crimes of women in Victorian England.

A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artistsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Oliver Tostma...

A collection that brings together a host of writings from across different regions and cultures of the Middle Ages, from the ninth to the fifteenth...

This book revisits women's workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity in...

The story of Islam as never presented before

In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises the narrative of women's involvement in the German Dominican order, arguing that Dominican women ...

A centenary tribute to Britain's trailblazing, boundary-breaking women engineers

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

New paperback edition - The perfect almanac for lovers of all things medieval. A detailed picture is gathered from original sources.

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

Offers a look at some of medieval Europe's most influential women, as well as some you may not have heard of, exploring their role as rulers, wives...

Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emot...

Reducere. "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace..." (I Peter 4: 10).The women whose st...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Australia) BendallIllustration(s): 150 color and bw illusNumb...

The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's te...

This work is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Linda GordonNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 28Cover type: Paper...