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Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played a

What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the

Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.

Looks at the lives and social conditions of women in medieval Europe.

Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of