The Fourth Estate
A History of Women in the Middle Ages
by Shulamith Shahar
390 pages· 2003· ISBN 9781134394203
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Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.
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