Author : Jennifer C. Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Gentry
ISBN : 9780719041150
Book Description
Jennifer Ward's recent book on later medieval English noblewomen argued convincingly the importance of those women's roles in shaping and structuring their world. In the present volume, she adds new dimensions to her work. She goes back further in time, situating changes as well as continuities in noblewomen's lives against the nobility's social and political evolution over the centuries from the eleventh to the fifteenth, and, in line with the aims of the series, she opens up the evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, and presents it accessibly to what will surely be a wide audience.