About this title: Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book on women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she collected found its way into her popular lectures on medieval women. These lectures are now brought together, edited by M. M. Postan, and reveal the world in which women lived, were educated, worked, and worshipped. Power gives a vivid account of the worlds of the lady, the peasant, the townswoman, and the nun. The result is a historical yet intimate picture of a period gone by yet with resonances for today. For this ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780521099462ISBN:0521099463
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Sparse aqua highlighting. Shiny cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780521595568ISBN:0521595568
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Flexible some, still fairly tightly bound, a little edge wear, some underlines. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 p. Contains: Illustrations. Canto Book. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780521207690ISBN:052120769X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521207690ISBN:052120769X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521099462ISBN:0521099463
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521099462ISBN:0521099463
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780521099462ISBN:0521099463
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BU2-A trade paperback book in good+ condition. A tight, sound copy in color wraps with some scattered ink underlining and margin marks on pages 43 through 57 plus there is a crease along the fron spine edge plus the spine is slightly rolled plus the original owner's name is on the inside surface of the front cover and the front endpaper and these have been heavily marked out with black marker that has slightly bled onto the front cover along the ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780521099462ISBN:0521099463
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. As-New Softcover--very clean and tightno remainder or other markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is a brief collection of essays by the great medievalist, Eileen Power. The essays are basically book talks in which she summarizes her longer works. Helpful, especially if you haven't read the longer works. But there's nothing here that she hasn't said elsewhere, so if you've read her books, you don't need this one."
"A bit repetitive and definitely in need of an update (which, actually, is what the book calls for in the introduction), this book does give specific details from letter and records still in existence of what duties women performed outside of what typically is attributed as the natural role of the medieval woman. It goes beyond what women of high ranks did, which was the focus of Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens, and both incorporates and goes beyond the scant literature available from that time."
"Excellent book. I particularly loved the sideways look at a nunnery. Whenever I'm in church now I can't help thinking of the tittivillus(?) demon gathering up all the letters to take to satan for a marathon scrabble session..."
"Yes, women in the middle ages lived more restricted lives than women today. Natch. But they were also landowners, business owners, guildmembers, and apprentices. This volume collects a series of Eileen Power's lectures--each on a different class of women. The writing is easy and more popular than academic. It's also a bit quaint in some of the language, having been written in the '20s. I'm currently reading another Powers book, Medieval People, and am enjoying it greatly. I'd also like to find her work on medieval English nunneries."
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