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by Marty Newman Williams,Anne Echols

Marty Newman Williams Anne Echols World English

Download Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages ePub

ISBN 0910129339
ISBN13 978-0910129336
Language English
Author Marty Newman Williams,Anne Echols
Publisher Markus Wiener Pub; First Edition edition (March 1, 1994)
Pages 360
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Category History
Subcategory World
Size ePub 1259 kb
Size Fb2 1841 kb
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 295

"Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.' "-John Bugge, Emory University

Between Pit and Pedestal book. Two quibbles - the listing (sometimes ad nauseum) of examples of situations women found themselves in the middle ages did not always make for good reading

Between Pit and Pedestal book. Two quibbles - the listing (sometimes ad nauseum) of examples of situations women found themselves in the middle ages did not always make for good reading. A few examples stood out, but even organized into related topics (. rulers, artists, doctors, et. it made the reading of it tedious at times. Another point is that there was name dropping at times that was not fully explained, almost seeming like one ch While most of the information was not new to me, it was still informative and detailed.

Authors Marty Newman Williams and Anne Echols present a well-rounded overview of what life for women from various stations of life was like during . Recommended for anyone interested in the Middle Ages or women in history.

Authors Marty Newman Williams and Anne Echols present a well-rounded overview of what life for women from various stations of life was like during this era (information on rich and poor, religious women, and scholars is provided).

a b Williams, Marty Newman; Echols, Anne (1993). Between pit and pedestal : women in the Middle Ages. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Pub. p. 232. ISBN 0910129339. php?title Joanna (prioress of Lothen)&oldid 931250695". Categories: 12th-century Christian nuns. 12th-century German women. German Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns.

Marty Williams, Anne Echols. Markus Wiener Pu. 1994 - History - 301 pages. A fascinating and highly readable survey. Between pit and pedestal: women in the Middle Ages.

Xi, 301 pages : 24 cm. "Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world. -. -John Bugge, Emory University from back cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and index.

Between Pit and Pedestal" offers a fascinating in-depth look into the daily lives of women during the middle ages

Between Pit and Pedestal" offers a fascinating in-depth look into the daily lives of women during the middle ages. Authors Marty Newman Williams and Anne Echols present a well-rounded overview of what life for women from various stations of life was like during this era (information on rich and poor, religious women, and scholars is provided).

Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages is a popular history of wo. .en in medieval Europe. We included the stories of famous and obscure women to weave our tapestry about women's roles in all aspects of medieval life. An Annotated Index of Medieval Women presents brief biographical information about hundreds of medieval women and organizes them by occupation, region, and time period. I love both of my careers, teaching and writing, and how they connect together all cloth p.

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With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world. - John Bugge, Emory University.

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"Between Pit and Pedestal" offers a fascinating in-depth look into the daily lives of women during the middle ages. Authors Marty Newman Williams and Anne Echols present a well-rounded overview of what life for women from various stations of life was like during this era (information on rich and poor, religious women, and scholars is provided). The book is divided into well-researched chapters that offer commentaries on every day life, personal relationships and sexual mores, religion, politics and law as it pertained to women, culture, work, and literature and art. No stone is left unturned, and the authors provide many interesting biographies of medieval women whenever possible to reinforce their research.
The book is fascinating, and reads easily. Extremely well researched, the book includes helpful notes and citations, an excellent bibliography for further reading and a glossary. You will come away with a clear idea of what life was like for women in the Middle Ages, as well as knowledge regarding politics, community life, morals, and religious thought of the time.

Maman

This book is a great find. It not only fills in the void of information about women in the middle ages, but also reveals the unusual amount of power they were able to wield in the more personal structure of the feudal system. It was a revelation to me in many ways, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the changing roles of women through the ages. A smooth and fascinating read!

Yainai

Between Pit and Pedestal does an admirable job describing the life of real women in the Middle Ages as they live between the 'pit of hell' characeterized by the fall of Eve and the saintly pedestal of the Virgin Mary. The book covers all aspects of medieval life from the home and hearth to sex, religion, land ownership, the legal system and government. The book is readable and is well-suited for the general reader. My only complaint with the book is that at times it reads like a string of factoids strung together and individual stories lacks depth. This fault is somewhat required by the survey nature of the book. Recommended for anyone interested in the Middle Ages or women in history.

Malogamand

How did I miss this one? Helps satisfy the lack of information available about women in the Middle Ages. Intended as a research tool, the background information makes this a great read beyond its obvious academic application.

INvait

This book is for all women to read and pass down on to their daughters. We never "really" learn or hear about the injustice to women or what they had to go through in our history books. This book shows you both sides of living from the very poor to the very upper class women and how they all struggled to live in a male dominanted society. Even thought today we still don't live in as strict as a society for women, there are still a lot of parrells forn the Middle Ages until now that this book presents. It also has neat tibits of history that you won't ever find in regular history books and are so fascinating that they leave you spellbound, espeically when you know it's all fact.

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