Daily life of women in Medieval Europe / Belle S. Tuten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuten, Belle S., author.

Series:

Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.

The Greenwood Press daily life through history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Europe--History--To 1500.

Women.

Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women--Europe--Social conditions.

Women--Europe--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 224 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file HTML

Summary:

"This resource for high school and college students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, power, and work, taken from history and archaeology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chronology

1. Marriage and Sexuality

Late Antique and Early Medieval Marriage

Roman Marriage

Germanic Marriage

Age at First Marriage

The Christian Influence on Early Medieval Marriage

Sex in Marriage-Fourth Through Eleventh Centuries

Concubinage and Polygyny

High Medieval Marriage and Sexuality

Sex in Marriage-Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries

Positive and Negative Views of Sex

Positive and Negative Views of Marriage and Women

Jewish Marriage and Sexuality

Rape and Sexual Violence

Domestic Abuse

Conclusion

2. Childbirth, Child Rearing, and the Life Cycle

Understanding the Female Body

Pregnancy

Childbirth

Birth Attendants and Midwives

Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide

Illegitimacy and Abandonment

The Ages of Man

Stages of Life: The Family

Stages of Life: Infancy

Stages of Life: Adolescence

Stages of Life: Adulthood

Stages of Life: Widowhood

Stages of Life: Old Age

Stages of Life: A Good Death

3. Working Women

Living and Working in the Countryside: Serfs and Peasants

Everyday Food

Upper-Class Food and Feasts

Cloth Production

Town Work in the Middle Ages

Creating and Transmitting Knowledge: Book Production

Caregiving and Healing

4. Noble Women

Marriages and Children

Dowry, Dower, and Inheritance

Royal Power and Regency

Conduct of an Aristocratic Lady: Ideals

Daily Life for Upper-Class Women

Leisure Time

5. Religion and the Church

Daily Religious Practice

Finances and Endowments

New and Reformed Religious Orders

Lay Piety and Beguinage

Mysticism

Joan of Arc: Saint or Heretic?

6. Women on the Outskirts

Crimes and Incarceration

Sexual Transgressions.

Women and Religious Heresy

Magic and Witchcraft

7. Women in Their Own Words

Brunhilda (Sixth Century CE)

Baudonivia (ca. 600 CE)

Dhuoda (Ninth Century)

Hrosvitha of Gandersheim (ca. 935-ca. 973)

Wynflaed, Wulfwaru, and Wulfgyth (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries)

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (d. ca. 1091 CE)

Constance of Angers (Late Eleventh to Early Twelfth Centuries)

Trota of Salerno (Twelfth Century)

Qasmuna bint Isma'il ibn Bagdalah (Twelfth Century)

Héloïse of Argenteuil (ca. 1100-1164)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

Herrad of Hohenburg (ca. 1130-1195)

Clemence of Barking (Late Twelfth Century)

The Trobairitz (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)

Marie de France (Fl. Twelfth Century)

Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416)

Christine de Pisan (1364-1430)

Catherine Benincasa of Siena (1347-1380)

Margery Kempe (1373-ca. 1439)

Bartolomea Riccoboni (ca. 1369-1440)

Helene Kottanner (ca. 1400-after 1470)

The Paston Women (Fifteenth Century)

Primary Document A: Héloïse to Abelard, Letter 4, ca. 1132

Primary Document B: Catherine of Siena, Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, ca. 1370

Primary Document C: Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, ca. 1410

Primary Document D: Margaret Paston, The Marriage of Margery Paston, 1469

Primary Document E: Margery Kempe, Excerpt from The Book of Margery Kempe, 1521

Glossary

About the Author

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Tuten, Belle S. Daily Life of Women in Medieval Europe

ISBN:

9798400637490

9798216071556

9781440872358

144087235X

OCLC:

1338198544