This is a history of the early European middle ages through the eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's history with original research in the co

The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of ge

This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in pub