Jennifer Ward's recent book on later medieval English noblewomen argued convincingly the importance of those women's roles in shaping and structuring their worl

While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a coll

Medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts in bringing up their families, balancing family and work, and responding to the demands o

Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the l

Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlik