Medieval Women - Social History Of Women In England 450-1500 (Paperback, Digital original)

In Medieval Women, Henrietta Leyser celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages. Rather than picturing them as hiding in the shadows and dismissing them as either victims or slaves, her unique approach presents medieval women as clever, argumentative, influential and visible. Above all, she rescues these women from the deeply unflattering portraits drawn by nineteenth century Victorian historians.