Women in the Middle Ages: The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition

An ambitious work that traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. "A wealth of solid information." —The New York Times

Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women during this period have been too often relegated to the dustbin of history. In Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies reclaim this lost history, in a lively historical survey that charts the evolu...