![]() ![]() ![]() This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of the gender theories inherited from the earlier Middle Ages which continued to underpin laws which restricted women's activity, an education system which offered them inferior institutional provision, and a church which denied them ministry. ![]() the role of women in the ruling and landholding classes the function of women in the countryside and towns Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timeframe. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in the same ways. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. 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 Black Death of 1347-51. ![]()
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