Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England by Cordelia Beattie

Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

Cordelia Beattie

200 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative medium-paced
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The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories "maiden" and "widow" so culturally significan...

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