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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women’s beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what’s shifted over time—and what hasn’t.
Enshrined medieval thinkers,...