Medieval Women

by Eileen Power , Foreword by Maxine Berg

• ISBN13: 9780521595568
• ISBN10: 0521595568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book on women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she collected found its way into her popular lectures on medieval women. These lectures are now brought together, edited by M. M. Postan, and reveal the world in which women lived, were educated, worked, and worshipped. Power gives a vivid account of the worlds of the lady, the peasant, the townswoman, and the nun. The result is a historical yet intimate picture of a period gone by yet with resonances for today. For this edition, Maxine Berg is also included, offering an intimate portrait of the writer and social historian.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Eileen Power, 1889-1940	ix	(18)
Maxine Berg
Preface	xxvii
1 Medieval ideas about women	1	(26)
2 The lady	27	(18)
3 The working woman in town and country	45	(23)
4 The education of women	68	(13)
5 Nunneries	81	(11)
Notes	92	(5)
List of illustrations	97	(3)
Bibliography	100	(2)
Index	102