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Author Lawler, Jennifer, 1965- author.

Title Encyclopedia of women in the Middle Ages / Jennifer Lawler
Published Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series Academic & Nonfiction Books anthology
Academic & Nonfiction Books anthology
NC LIVE module
Summary Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century, and of Joan of Arc, who, in the 15th century, fought against the English for the French, gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th-century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan and other nations around the world. There are entries on queens, empresses and other women in positions of leadership, as well as entries on topics such as work, marriage and family, households, employment, religion and various other aspects of women's lives in the Middle Ages. Genealogies of queens and empresses accompany the text in an appendix
Notes Original document: Book
In Academic & Nonfiction Books
Subject Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Encyclopedias
HISTORY -- GENERAL.
REFERENCE -- GENERAL.
Women -- Middle Ages
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
History
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781476601113
1476601119