Medieval Women Av Henrietta Leyser

<p>Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored.<br><br>MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women''s lives in the Middle Ages.</p>