Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200

by Helen M. Jewell

Book Overview

The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333912594
• ISBN13: 9780333912591
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"