The Fourth Estate
A History of Women in the Middle Ages| By: | Shulamith Shahar |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138135468 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134394203 |
| Edition: | 2 |
| Copyright: | 2003 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.