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A medieval miscellany /
"This collection of occasional writings by renowned medieval scholar Margaret Wade Labarge considers an eclectic mix of themes and issues in the history of the Middle Ages. The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are depicted through their own writings; questi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Ottawa] :
Carleton University Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The lives of medieval women. In search of medieval women. A medieval woman's advice to wives. Wives, widows and wantons, a medieval sampler. Three medieval widows and a second career. Beatrice, Countess of Provence, marriage politics in the thirteenth century. The education of medieval women revisited ... The status and power of medieval noblewomen.
- Aspects of culture, medieval and modern. The cultural tradition of Canadian women. Stained glass, a reflection of the thirteenth century passion for light. Medieval travel and travellers ...
- Highways and byways of scholarly enquiry. Saint Louis and the Jews. Travels of a diplomat, Edward I's use of Othon de Grandson. A clock to Constantinople, the travels of Ghillebert de Lannoy. Pero Tafur, a fifteenth century Spaniard. Henry of Lancaster and Le livre de seyntz medicines. Pey Berland, Archbishop of Bordeaux, 1430-1456.
- Medieval health care. The health problems of medieval travellers. The Régime du corps of Aldebrandino of Siena, a thirteenth century regimen for women. Gerontocomia, on the care of the aged, a fifteenth century Italian guide by Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505).