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May 7, 2024 · Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society.
1 day ago · A new temporary exhibition at the Swiss National Museum in Zürich – coveted. cared for. martyred. Bodies in the Middle Ages – re-evaluates the ways in which medieval Europeans saw, conceived, and imagined the human body. In this interview, James Blake Wiener questions Curator Christine Keller about the exhibition's finer points.
May 22, 2024 · She argues that a ‘distinct and coherent medieval queenship began to take shape around 300 CE’, leading to a fixed and unchanging concept by 1500 (p. 15). Through the course of the book she discusses what queenship entailed in the first part of the period and then moves on to highlight how the role of queen evolved from just the wife of a ...
3 days ago · Physicians in the Islamic world during the medieval period documented the use of abortifacients, commenting on their effectiveness and prevalence. Colonial Americans were advised to use careful measurements in a recipe by Benjamin Franklin for an abortifacient.
5 days ago · Even though medieval society was patriarchal, van Houts shows that this did not prevent women from being influential or from being partners to their husbands. Rather, medieval husbands from all parts of society relied on their wives in a variety of ways.
2 days ago · Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. However, the position of women varied considerably according to various factors, including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the country ...
6 days ago · While Roman law appears to be the single most important source of medieval ideas of marriage and its alternatives in Karras’s eyes, by covering all three traditions she primes her interpretive pump by showing how those traditions all used the status of the woman as a way of determining the nature of the relationship.
