Publisher's Synopsis
'Outstanding contributions to women's history.' History Today;'It achieves rare catholicity, is often amusing, always imposing and establishes its authority as a volume which will appeal to those interested in the history of women as well as to medieval historians.' The Book Exchange;The essays include studies on the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; medieval gynaecology; wives' claims against insolvent husbands; the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul; an examination of one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy; and of the ideal of virginal life.
