The Fourth Estate

The Fourth Estate A History of Women in the Middle Ages

Revised Edition

Paperback (17 Apr 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415308519
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: Revised Edition
DEWEY: 305.40902
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 351
Weight: 464g
Height: 219mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 23mm