Women in the Middle Ages

Background: Women in history

Women in the Early Middle Ages

Women and feudalism

Eve and Mary

The Women: Abbess, Hildegarde of Bingen

A Reigning Queen, Blanche of Castile

A Great lady, Eleanor de Montfort

Piers Plowman's wife

A City working woman, Agnes li Patiniere of Douai; Women and the guilds

Margherita Datini, An Italian merchant's wife

Margaret Paston, A fifteenth-century gentlewoman

The Middle Ages and after.