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Information about women in this truly fascinating period from 500 to 1500 is in great demand and has been a challenge for historians to uncover. Bardsley has mined a wide range of primary sources, from noblewomen's writing, court rolls, chivalric literature, laws and legal documents, to archeology and artwork. This fresh survey provides readers with an excellent understanding of how women high and low fared in terms of religion, work, family, law, culture, and politics and public life. Even though medieval women were divided by social class, religion, age, marital status, place and period, they were all subject to an overarching patriarchal structure and sometimes could transcend their infer...
This collection of sources explores the life-cycle themes of childhood, adolescence, married life, widowhood and old age, then goes on to examine such topics as work in town and country, prostitution, the law, recreation, and devotion.
Née en 1948, Agnès Le Roux aurait aujourd’hui soixante ans. Ou faut-il dire a ? Elle a disparu : meurtre ou exil volontaire loin, très loin de la promenade des Anglais ? L’une des plus fameuses énigmes de la seconde moitié du xxe siècle met en scène Mme Le Roux mère, Renée, copropriétaire du Palais de la Méditerranée, le célèbre casino niçois sur lequel Jean-Dominique Fratoni entend mettre la main. L’amant d’Agnès, Maurice Agnelet, va favoriser l’opération en aidant la fille à voter contre sa mère au conseil d’administration, renversant la majorité et chassant Renée Le Roux de son poste de P-DG. Le récit est l’évocation, par un romancier, d’un fait divers mêlant des éléments amplement divulgués par les médias à des aperçus et interprétations propres à l’auteur. C’est aussi l’occasion fournie à Patrick Besson de brosser un portrait très contrasté de Nice, gouvernée à l’époque par Jacques Médecin.
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.
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