Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages

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A fascinating and highly readable survey. – Library Journal Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings – all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being ‘a man’s world.’ – John Bugge, Emory University