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Women in the Middle Ages
- Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens
Af: Gemma Hollman
Engelsk Hardback
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Women in the Middle Ages
- Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens
Af: Gemma Hollman
Engelsk Hardback
Hardback
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A magnificently illustrated oversize book that uses art to illuminate the lives of medieval women, from peasants to queens.

Medieval women ruled over kingdoms, abbeys, and households; produced stunning works of art and craft; and did the hard work that kept ordinary families fed and clothed. In medieval written accounts, however, women’s contributions were often diminished or completely ignored. Yet art tells a different story: women appear everywhere, from manuscript miniatures to statues in cathedrals. In this book, historian Gemma Hollman uncovers the captivating story of medieval European women through the art of their time.

Hollman traces the lives of women across society, with chapters dedicated to nuns like Hildegarde of Bingen, abbess, mystic, and polymath; courtiers like Christine de Pizan, author of pioneering works on women’s role in society; warriors like Joan of Arc; and the everyday women whose names are lost to history. She illustrates her text with some 150 varied works of medieval art, revealing what they tell us about the real lives of medieval women, and about medieval attitudes toward women — which were exemplified at once by Eve, the symbol of moral fallibility, and by the Virgin Mary, the paragon of virtue.

With its eye-opening new perspective on the lives of medieval women and how they were portrayed, this book will be a treasure for anyone interested in the Middle Ages or women’s history.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9780789214966
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0789214962
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Udg. Dato:
30 okt 2024
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
313mm
Højde:
238mm
Forlag:
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
30 okt 2024
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