In the past several years, I've written books on women in history including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I & II, women in the 19th century, w

Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in La

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

Explores the roles played by women of various classes in medieval society, in the nobility, in the church, and in daily life and work.

The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Bl