The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages

By Shulamit Shahar

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415308518
• ISBN13: 9780415308519
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"