The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia

Women in 15c Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations.

The letters of the Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anézka, give a vivid insight into how medieval women viewed themselves. Perchta's letters inform her father that his choice of a husband for her has caused her desperate sadness andsorrow in which death seems a better alternative. Despite her unhappiness and her almost total dependence on others, however, Perchta undertook to take contr...