| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Traditions Inherited: Attitudes About Women From the Centuries Before 800 A.D. -- 1. Buried Traditions: The Question of Origins -- 2. Inherited Traditions: The Principal Influences -- 3. Traditions Subordinating Women -- 4. Traditions Empowering Women -- 5. The Effects of Christianity -- II. Women of the Fields: Sustaining the Generations -- 1. The Constants of the Peasant Women's World: The Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries -- 2. Sustaining the Generations -- 3. The Extraordinary -- 4. What Remains of the Peasant Woman's World -- III. Women of the Churches: The Power of the Faithful -- 1. The Patterns of Power and Limitation: The Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries: -- 2. Authority Within the Institutional Church -- 3. Authority Outside the Institutional Church -- 4. Authority Given and Taken Away: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations -- 5. Traditional Images Redrawn -- 6. The Legacy of the Protestant Reformation -- IV. Women of the Castles and Manors: Custodians of Land and Lineage -- 1. From Warrior's Life to Noblewomen: The Ninth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- 2. Constants of the Noblewoman's Life -- 3. Power and Vulnerability -- 4. The New Flowering of Ancient Traditions -- V. Women of the Walled Towns: Providers and Partners -- 1. The Townswoman's Daily Life: The Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- 2. Dangers and Remedies -- 3. The World of Commercial Capitalism: The Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- 4. The Invisible and Visible Bonds of Misogyny -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe -- History.
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Feminism -- Europe -- History.
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| Author |
Zinsser, Judith P.
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| LC no. |
98046743 |
| ISBN |
0195128389 paperback v. 1 |
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0195128397 paperback v. 2 |
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